Breastfeeding and the individual: The impact of everyday stressful experience and hormonal change on breastfeeding duration among women in São Paulo, Brazil

Breastfeeding offers significant benefits to the breastfed infant as well as the breastfeeding woman. The World Health Organization now recommends exclusive breastfeeding until six months, followed by supplementation and continued breastfeeding to two years or more. Around the world, public health p...

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Main Author: Rudzik, Alanna
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2010
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3397743