Explore the latest in breastfeeding, including advances in understanding ways to encourage it and its long-term effects on child health.
This cohort study examines the association between improved lactation accommodation support and physician satisfaction at a large, urban academic health system.
This Viewpoint discusses 2 new programs of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch that apply an ecological approach to understanding nutrition and public health.
This randomized clinical trial examines the development of egg allergy and sensitization in breastfed infants whose mothers ate eggs in the first 5 days after delivery.
This Patient Page describes the challenges of returning to work while breastfeeding, tips on how to transition back to work, and the advantages of breast milk.
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 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 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 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.
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