(Thursday, may 5, HealthDay News) - while new mothers are strongly encouraged to breastfeed their babies for at least a year, a small study of child care centres suggests that relatively few are in place to help mothers to do so.
The research conducted by doctors at Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati Children, revealed that only 12% of infants enrolled in child care centres in two counties near Cincinnati were fed milk from their motherWhile 96% of centre directors stated that they would be comfortable facilitating practice.
"We were surprised to find that despite high levels of personal comfort in the breast milk of food, only a small percentage of infants fed human milk," said study author Dr. Kristen Copeland, an assistant professor of Pediatrics at Medical Center of Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
A stone of stumbling big seems to be a lack of storage refrigerated overnight in centres for any breastfeeding pumped mothers might take care to leave, the study concluded.
"We know that the centres which are pumped to store milk from one day to the next day make it easier for women to ensure a steady supply of milk for their babies," Copeland said, "so if several centres offered storage during the night."It could increase the number of infants fed human milk. ?
The results were presented this week at a joint meeting of the Pediatric Society of companies / Asian University for pediatric research in Denver.
According to the researchers, about half of all newborns to the United States are in daycare, and 18% are in the centres.
To study, Copeland and his colleagues conducted telephone surveys with the directors of 167 childcare centres in two urban counties in southwestern Ohio. Administrators have asked how many infants are currently registered in their centres were fed breast milk pumped, how comfortable the Centre was with feed pumped breast milk, and the Centre has provided a refrigerator or freezer where mothers could store pumped breast milk during the night.
Only 26% of the said centres human milk may be kept during the night.
Three factors, enabling parents to store breast milk during the night, a primarily White inscription and a small proportion of infants receiving subsidized tuition fees, appeared to increase the chances that the babies were treated in a centre may receive milk from their motherthe researchers found.
Copeland, said that, although the study did not examine the reasons why little infants received bottles of milk pumped daycare, a lack of storage at night could be a key factor.
The low prevalence of milk breast feeding infants non-white and low income, most importantly, also could "reflect more low rates of breastfeeding initiation or limited options of women of pumping in the workplace," the authors reported.
"The findings speak for the enormous challenges facing women in power successfully breastfeed their babies,", said researcher Dr. Alison Stuebe, Assistant Professor of obstetrics and Gynecology at the school of the University of medicine at Chapel Hill North Carolina nursing.
Stuebe agreed that the differences observed between babies of poor or rich houses may be due, in part, mothers being does not able to pump during the work day. "The higher your income, it is that you have an Office with a door that you can close for twenty minutes, so you can pump," she said. "" "". If you are working in the window at the wheel of a fast-food, you do not have this possibility. ?
Centres of custody of children who want to be truly cooperative need more that simply provide storage during the night of pumped milk, noted Stuebe. "For example, it must also be a comfortable place where mothers can sit and breastfeed their baby, either at the time of lunch or when they come look at the end of the day," said.
SOURCES: Kristen Copeland, M.D., Assistant Professor, division of General and community Pediatrics, Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati Children; Alison Stuebe, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of obstetrics and Gynecology, division of maternal fetal medicine, University of school of medicine, North Carolina, Chapel Hill; May 1, 2011, presentation, society of companies / Asian paediatric University for pediatric research, Denver meeting
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