Breastfeeding has positive health effects, with the largest health gain realized through policy that focuses on encouraging all mothers to start breastfeeding. A literature review shows that breastfeeding has beneficial health effects in both the short and the longer term. There is convincing evidence that the incidence of gastrointestinal infections, inflammation of middle ear, obesity and high blood pressure is reduced in breastfed children. Probably breastfed children suffer less from asthma, wheezing, eczema and among them intellectual and motor development is probably enhanced. Breastfeeding is possibly related to a reduction of incidence in Crohn's disease, atopy, diabetes mellitus type I, and leukaemia. Regarding the mother, there is...
Maternal milk is recommended as the optimal and exclusive source of early nutrition for all infants ...
BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, the initiation rate of breast-feeding (BF) was 80% in 2002, but only...
Exclusive breastfeeding is given since the baby is born until the age of two years. Increasing Human...
Borstvoeding is gunstiger voor de gezondheid van kinderen en moeders dan flesvoeding. Zo is overtuig...
Breastfeeding has positive health effects, with the largest health gain realized through policy that...
Dit rapport bevat een erratum op de laatste paginaBorstvoeding heeft positieve effecten op de volksg...
Borstvoeding is gunstiger voor de gezondheid van kinderen en moeders dan flesvoeding. Zo is overtuig...
In Nederland adviseert de overheid de moeders om zes maanden of langer borstvoeding te geven. Echter...
Het beleid om het aantal pasgeborenen dat borstvoeding krijgt te verhogen is niet alleen een maatreg...
With the exception of the transmission of HIVand hepatitis viruses via breast milk, themyriad of ben...
Abstract The offer of the maternal breast to the baby is an unquestionable right of mothers and thei...
To access publisher's full text version of this article, please click on the hyperlink in Additional...
In the Netherlands, many women who start breastfeeding stop doing so in the first month after birth....
Infants of parents with a history of asthma could benefit from exclusive breastfeeding during the fi...
<p><span>Childhood obesity has increased dramatically over the last decades, representing one of the...
Maternal milk is recommended as the optimal and exclusive source of early nutrition for all infants ...
BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, the initiation rate of breast-feeding (BF) was 80% in 2002, but only...
Exclusive breastfeeding is given since the baby is born until the age of two years. Increasing Human...
Borstvoeding is gunstiger voor de gezondheid van kinderen en moeders dan flesvoeding. Zo is overtuig...
Breastfeeding has positive health effects, with the largest health gain realized through policy that...
Dit rapport bevat een erratum op de laatste paginaBorstvoeding heeft positieve effecten op de volksg...
Borstvoeding is gunstiger voor de gezondheid van kinderen en moeders dan flesvoeding. Zo is overtuig...
In Nederland adviseert de overheid de moeders om zes maanden of langer borstvoeding te geven. Echter...
Het beleid om het aantal pasgeborenen dat borstvoeding krijgt te verhogen is niet alleen een maatreg...
With the exception of the transmission of HIVand hepatitis viruses via breast milk, themyriad of ben...
Abstract The offer of the maternal breast to the baby is an unquestionable right of mothers and thei...
To access publisher's full text version of this article, please click on the hyperlink in Additional...
In the Netherlands, many women who start breastfeeding stop doing so in the first month after birth....
Infants of parents with a history of asthma could benefit from exclusive breastfeeding during the fi...
<p><span>Childhood obesity has increased dramatically over the last decades, representing one of the...
Maternal milk is recommended as the optimal and exclusive source of early nutrition for all infants ...
BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, the initiation rate of breast-feeding (BF) was 80% in 2002, but only...
Exclusive breastfeeding is given since the baby is born until the age of two years. Increasing Human...