ReviewFrontiers in pediatrics2020
Promoting and Protecting Human Milk and Breastfeeding in a COVID-19 World.
Review in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05979571 (Development of Educational Intervention Through Technological Platform to Support Exclusive Breastfeeding up to Six Months Pilot Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Development of Educational Intervention Through Technological Platform to Support Exclusive Breastfeeding up to Six Months Pilot Study
Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
- Difference in the Intestinal Microbiota between Breastfeed Infants and Infants Fed with Artificial Milk: A Systematic Review.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- Mother-to-child transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Deliberating the scientific evidence base for influenza transmission to raw milk consumers.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025Review
- Determinants of Breastfeeding Practices Pre- and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations between SARS-CoV-2 Infection or COVID-19 Vaccination and Human Milk Composition: A Multi-Omics Approach.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Disparities in being able to donate human milk impacts upon maternal wellbeing: Lessons for scaling up milk bank service provision.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Lactoferrin Supplementation in Preventing and Protecting from SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Is There Any Role in General and Special Populations? An Updated Review of Literature.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Getting breastfeeding started under pandemic visiting restrictions: lessons learned in Germany.International breastfeeding journal · 2024Article
- The global status of human milk banking.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Review
- Challenges of breastfeeding during COVID-19 and baby friendly protocols adopted at a maternity health center in the northern Emirates of UAE: a comprehensive review.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Review
- Skilled lactation support using telemedicine in the neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024Article
- Breastfeeding Practices for COVID-19-Infected Mothers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Review
- Practice recommendations regarding parental presence in NICUs during pandemics caused by respiratory pathogens like COVID-19.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Vertical transmission and maternal passive immunity post-SARS-CoV-2.Future virology · 2023Review
- Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody titers in breastmilk from convalescent and vaccinated mothers.iScience · 2023Article
- Cultural beliefs, attitudes and perceptions of lactating mothers on exclusive breastfeeding in The Gambia: an ethnographic study.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Implementing recommended breastfeeding practices in healthcare facilities in India during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir) Use in Pregnant and Lactating Woman: Current Evidence and Practice Guidelines-A Scoping Review.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Maternal mental health and breastfeeding amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: cross-sectional study in Catalonia (Spain).BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Observational
- The Entero-Mammary Pathway and Perinatal Transmission of Gut Microbiota and SARS-CoV-2.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
9 authors at 8 institutions in 5 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The global COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous stress on healthcare systems and hospital staffing. However, through all this, families will continue to become pregnant, give birth, and breastfeed. Unfortunately, care of the childbearing family has been de-prioritized during the pandemic. Additionally, many healthcare practices during the pandemic have not been positive for the childbearing family or breastfeeding. Despite recommendations from the World Health Organization to promote early, direct breastfeeding and skin to skin contact, these and other recommendations are not being followed in the clinical setting. For example, some mothers have been forced to go through labor and birth alone in some institutions whilst some hospitals have limited or no parental visitation to infants in the NICU. Furthermore, hospitals are discharging mothers and their newborns early, limiting the amount of time that families receive expert lactation care, education, and technical assistance. In addition, some hospitals have furloughed staff or transferred them to COVID-19 wards, further negatively impacting direct care for families and their newborns. We are concerned that these massive changes in the care of childbearing families will be permanently adopted. Instead, we must use the pandemic to underscore the importance of human milk and breastfeeding as lifesaving medical interventions. We challenge healthcare professionals to change the current prenatal and post-birth practice paradigms to protect lactation physiology and to ensure that all families in need receive equal access to evidence-based lactation education, care and technical assistance.
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