Example sentences for: breastfeeding

How can you use “breastfeeding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hospital-based intervention programs, maternity ward practices, and the feeding preferences of health care providers (doctors, lactation counselors, nurses) may affect breastfeeding behavior [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 ] . Interventions to increase exclusive and any breastfeeding may also result in lower morbidity rates [ 5 7 ] .

  • Breastfeeding information given before birth or on the maternity ward by either a doctor or a nurse was associated with an avoidance of prelacteal foods and a longer exclusive breastfeeding duration (Crude analysis: censored = 156/417; Adjusted analysis: censored = 143/384) (Table 7).

  • Reported breastfeeding duration was also compared with how Bolivian women thought infants should be breastfed.

  • Information about breastfeeding was assessed by posing the question "Have you received information about the advantages of breastfeeding from a doctor, nurse, other family member, neighbor, television, radio or newspapers/magazines/books?"

  • Lay support for breastfeeding probably results in a longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding [ 6 ] . It must, however, be emphasized that the cited meta-analysis by Sikorski and colleagues [ 6 ] was based on randomized and quasi-randomized trials in which even lay persons had undergone breastfeeding counseling/lactation management courses.


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