Explore the latest in breastfeeding, including advances in understanding ways to encourage it and its long-term effects on child health.
This Viewpoint examines the current state of telelactation and its role in digital equity.
This randomized clinical trial examines whether an exclusive human milk diet has an effect on gut bacterial richness, diversity, and proportions of specific taxa in preterm infants from enrollment to 34 weeks’ postmenstrual age.
This JAMA Insights Clinical Update reviews the risk factors for and symptoms of lactational mastitis and provides a potential treatment algorithm.
This cohort study investigates the presence of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA in the expressed breast milk of lactating individuals who received the vaccination within 6 months after delivery.
This review highlights recent literature regarding lactation in otolaryngology patients, including medication, radiologic imaging, perioperative considerations, and subspecialty-specific considerations for lactating patients.
This study aims to compare the antibody response in human milk after vaccination with mRNA-based and vector-based vaccines.
This cohort study compares the temporal pattern and neutralizing activity of anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in human milk following natural COVID-19 infection vs SARS-CoV-2 messenger RNA vaccination.
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician who learned the hard secrets of breastfeeding after the birth of her twins shares how her experience transformed her approach to new parents by acknowledging the difficulty and helping them find support.
This cohort study analyzes milk samples from lactating mothers to determine if COVID-19 vaccine–related messenger RNA was detectable in human milk after vaccination.
This cross-sectional study evaluated American Board of Medical Specialties member boards’ lactation-specific board examination accommodation policies and corroborated the outcomes of these policies by comparing the self-reported experiences of lactating or potentially lactating female physicians with board examinations.
This case report examines a case of linear immunoglobulin A bullous dermatosis in a breast-fed newborn with an asymptomatic mother.
This cross-sectional study investigates the association between consumption of maternal breast milk and cardiac performance at age 1 year among individuals born preterm.
This cohort study assesses the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the breast milk of women who received vaccines for COVID-19 and their correlation with serum antibody levels.
This randomized clinical trial investigates whether fortification of expressed breast milk by preterm formula powder is noninferior to fortification by human milk fortifier, in terms of short-term weight gain, in very low-birth-weight neonates.
This qualitative study describes the perspective and experience of US surgical program directors regarding maternity leave and postpartum support.
This study assesses the immunogenicity of the current COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in pregnant and lactating women against both the original SARS-CoV-2 USA-WA1/2020 strain as well as against the B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants of concern.
In this narrative medicine essay, a family medicine intern frames her infant’s beginning with another mother’s ending from COVID-19 and considers the threads of loss for the mother isolated from her son and imagines her own losses, beginning with her daughter’s weaning.
This cohort study measures Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol levels in breast milk and serum samples from women who were newly abstinent from marijuana and had just delivered an infant.
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