Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
August 18, 2020 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
As National Breast/Chestfeeding Month continues in the United States, there is a very positive update to the just released Healthy People 2030 goals. The Healthy People 2030 (HP2030) project "sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade" for residents of the United States and updates the 2020 goals. These newly released objectives include two lactation goals for new parent/baby dyads: Increase the number of infants who are exclusively breast/chestfed at 6 months and increase the number of infants who are nursing at 12 months.
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January 17, 2011 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Following posts like this one from last week, it's encouraging to see that breastfeeding initiation rates have continued to rise in recent years. But, as Science & Sensibility contributor Edith Kernerman, IBCLC, pointed out: the rates of breastfeeding exclusivity at the six-month-postpartum
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