Low rates of predominant breastfeeding in hospital after gestational diabetes, particularly among Indigenous women in Australia

Abstract Objectives: To investigate rates of ‘any’ and ‘predominant’ breastfeeding in hospital among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Methods: A retrospective study of singleton infants born from July 2007 to December 2010 at Cairns Hospital,...

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Published in:	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Main Authors:	Catherine R. Chamberlain, Alyce N. Wilson, Lisa H. Amir, Kerin O'Dea, Sandra Campbell, Dympna Leonard, Rebecca Ritte, Mary Mulcahy, Sandra Eades, Rory Wolfe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2017-04-01
Subjects:	breastfeeding Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus pregnancy Aboriginal Indigenous
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12629