ArticleMaternal and child health journal2012
Alcohol use patterns among postpartum women.
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- Adaptive Text Messaging for Postpartum Risky Drinking: Conceptual Model and Protocol for an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Alcohol use during pregnancy and motherhood: Attitudes and experiences of pregnant women, mothers, and healthcare professionals.PloS one · 2022Article
- Associations of education and income with hazardous drinking among postpartum women in Japan: results from the TMM BirThree Cohort Study.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Harmful alcohol use among mothers of under-five child: findings from the Panel Study on Korean Children.BMC women's health · 2021Article
- Sex differences in the relative influence of marital status and parenthood on alcohol use disorder symptoms: A multilevel discordant twin design.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2020Article
- Korean mothers' alcohol consumption trajectories from childbirth to 6 years postpartum and children's executive function difficulties at first grade.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Article
- The effect of California's paid family leave policy on parent health: A quasi-experimental study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- High-Intensity Drinking in Adult Australian Twins.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Article
- Concurrent Trajectories of Female Drinking and Smoking Behaviors Throughout Transitions to Pregnancy and Early Parenthood.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Article
- Maternal Alcohol Consumption During the Perinatal and Early Parenting Period: A Longitudinal Analysis.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Continuous and Intermittent Alcohol Free-Choice from Pre-gestational Time to Lactation: Focus on Drinking Trajectories and Maternal Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- Predictors of Postpartum Change in Alcohol Use in Norwegian Mothers.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2015Article
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Abstract
While much attention has been paid to women's drinking during pregnancy, few studies address a woman's drinking once she has given birth, which presents potential dangers to herself and her child. This time of transition can be extremely stressful, potentially leading to problem drinking. On the other hand, this new role and change in lifestyle may be protective against alcohol use and abuse. We used the California Women's Health Survey (CWHS), a randomized sample of adult women in California, to compare new mothers' drinking behaviors to other women. In order to obtain a large enough sample to observe trends in subpopulations, we combined CWHS data from years 1997-2008 (n = 28,537 women aged 18-48). We used logistic regression to determine the individual-level characteristics that best predicted the outcomes postpartum and to compare new mothers (those with a child in the household <1 year and pregnant in the last 5 years) to other women for any alcohol use, heavy episodic drinking and number of days of alcohol use. New mothers were significantly less likely to engage in all behavior outcomes after adjustment for race/ethnicity, income, employment, education, age, and marital status, though new mothers who are not married and those in higher income brackets were identified as groups at higher risk of drinking. Although new motherhood could prove to be a risk factor for some women, we found that being a new mother is protective against all measures of drinking.
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