Does warming the breasts affect the amount of breastmilk production?

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 487-488

  Yiäÿit, Feride ^a   Çiäÿdem, Zerrin ^a   Temizsoy, Ebru ^b   Cingi, Melek Ersoy ^a   Korel, Özlem ^a   Yildirim, Egemen ^b   Ovali, Fahri ^b  

^a MALTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Neonatal Intensive Care Unit   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST WARMING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC BREAST PUMP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MILK LEVEL; MILK PRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WARMING;

ADULT; BREAST MILK EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; TURKEY;

EID: 84871011271     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2011.0142     Document Type: Article

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