Impact of Measuring Milk Production by Test Weighing on Breastfeeding Confidence in Mothers of Term Infants

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 318-325

  Kent, Jacqueline C ^a   Hepworth, Anna R ^a   Langton, Diana B ^b   Hartmann, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD GROWTH; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTATION CONSULTANT; MILK PRODUCTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT GAIN; ADULT; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECRETION (PROCESS); SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERM BIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; SELF CONCEPT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TERM BIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938086219     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2015.0025     Document Type: Article

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