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Literature review for - Flourish Paediatrics

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BREASTFEEDING AND MATERNAL AND INFANT OUTCOMES<br />

What are the benefits of breastfeeding (partial and exclusive) and the risks of not breastfeeding<br />

(any and exclusive), to infants and mothers, both in the short term and long term?<br />

Evidence statement<br />

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Evidence statement<br />

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Evidence statement<br />

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Evidence statement<br />

Grade<br />

Component Rating Notes<br />

Infants who are exclusively breastfed <strong>for</strong> six months<br />

experience less morbidity from gastrointestinal infection than<br />

those who are mixed breastfed as of three or four months.<br />

B<br />

Infants, from either developing or developed countries, who<br />

are exclusively breastfed <strong>for</strong> six months or longer do not have<br />

deficits in growth compared to those who are not exclusively<br />

breastfed.<br />

B<br />

There are no apparent risks in a general recommendation <strong>for</strong><br />

exclusive breastfeeding <strong>for</strong> the first six months of life, in both<br />

developing and developed-countries. However, infants should<br />

still be managed individually in order to achieve sufficient<br />

growth and minimise adverse outcomes.<br />

B<br />

Mothers of infants exclusively breastfed <strong>for</strong> 6 months or more<br />

have more prolonged lactational amenorrhea.<br />

B<br />

Evidence Base Excellent 8 Systematic <strong>review</strong>s [3 are Cochrane; 3 with meta-analysis<br />

(5P, 1O, 2N)]; 5 protective effect on breastfeeding success, 1<br />

had no results and 1 found maternal perceived insufficient<br />

milk supply increased risk of lactation failure.<br />

Consistency Good Definitions of breastfeeding (exclusive, partial, any) vary<br />

across studies. Consistent <strong>for</strong> support prolonging<br />

breastfeeding. Some of the same studies covered by the<br />

<strong>review</strong>s<br />

Clinical impact Good For provision of support, the RR <strong>for</strong> ceasing breastfeeding was<br />

approx.0.65 to 0.9. When expressed as odds ratios <strong>for</strong><br />

continued breastfeeding the ORs <strong>for</strong> support ranged from 1.9<br />

to 5.2.<br />

Generalisability Excellent Breastfeeding definitions and rates are applicable to<br />

Australian women<br />

Applicability Good While some <strong>review</strong>s include studies conducted in developing<br />

countries, only those applicable to developed countries have<br />

been applied in developing the BOEs<br />

The studies included in the body of evidence statement are shown in Table 24.2.<br />

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