ArticlePublic health nutrition2016
High education and increased parity are associated with breast-feeding initiation and duration among Australian women.
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- Exploring the Association between Socioeconomic and Psychological Factors and Breastfeeding in the First Year of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thailand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Exclusivity of breastfeeding and body composition: learnings from the Baby-bod study.International breastfeeding journal · 2021Observational
- Post-breastfeeding stress response and breastfeeding self-efficacy as modifiable predictors of exclusive breastfeeding at 3 months postpartum: a prospective cohort study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Article
- Determinants of Full Breastfeeding at 6 Months and Any Breastfeeding at 12 and 24 Months among Women in Sydney: Findings from the HSHK Birth Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Multifactorial influence on duration of exclusive breastfeeding; a Danish cohort study.PloS one · 2020Article
- Maternal Factors and the Utilization of Maternal Care Services Associated with Infant Feeding Practices among Mothers in Rural Southern Nepal.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Modifiable Individual Factors Associated with Breastfeeding: A Cohort Study in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Determinants of breastfeeding initiation among mothers in Sydney, Australia: findings from a birth cohort study.International breastfeeding journal · 2017Article
- Breastfeeding Education: Where Are We Going? A Systematic Review Article.Iranian journal of public health · 2016Review
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Abstract
objectiveBreast-feeding is associated with positive maternal and infant health and development outcomes. To assist identifying women less likely to meet infant nutritional guidelines, we investigated the role of socio-economic position and parity on initiation of and sustaining breast-feeding for at least 6 months.
designProspective cohort study.
settingAustralia. SUBJECTS: Parous women from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (born 1973-78), with self-reported reproductive and breast-feeding history (N 4777).
resultsWhile 89 % of women (83 % of infants) had ever breast-fed, only 60 % of infants were breast-fed for at least 6 months. Multiparous women were more likely to breast-feed their first child (~90 % v. ~71 % of primiparous women), and women who breast-fed their first child were more likely to breast-feed subsequent children. Women with a low education (adjusted OR (95 % CI): 2·09 (1·67, 2·62)) or a very low-educated parent (1·47 (1·16, 1·88)) had increased odds of not initiating breast-feeding with their first or subsequent children. While fewer women initiated breast-feeding with their youngest child, this was most pronounced among high-educated women. While ~60 % of women breast-fed their first, second and third child for at least 6 months, low-educated women (first child, adjusted OR (95 % CI): 2·19 (1·79, 2·68)) and women with a very low (1·82 (1·49, 2·22)) or low-educated parent (1·69 (1·33, 2·14)) had increased odds of not breast-feeding for at least 6 months.
conclusionsA greater understanding of barriers to initiating and sustaining breast-feeding, some of which are socio-economic-specific, may assist in reducing inequalities in infant breast-feeding.
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