0 When a mother breastfeeds her baby, she feeds it with milk directly from her breasts rather than with artificial or cow's milk from a bottle. --
Interventions to reduce vertical transmission include avoidance of breastfeeding where safe and affordable alternatives exist and antiretroviral therapy with zidovudine during pregnancy, labour and to the neonate.
Nurses attended to health maintenance and risk reduction, such as managing breastfeeding problems and stressing the importance of immunization against vaccine preventable disease.
At 32 weeks, the patient asked for counselling regarding the possibility to breastfeed.
In contrast, when complementary feeding practices, sanitation and health are good, a negative association between breastfeeding and growth (and/or illness) is not observed.
Whether they were in employment or not, there was an additional reason for women having difficulty in breastfeeding during the war years.
In the logistic regression analysis, only breastfeeding status was a significant factor for oropharyngeal colonization.
The protection afforded by breastfeeding seems to have been fundamental in the case of children under one year of age.
Also, reduced periods of breastfeeding associated with high fertility rates could affect mortality.
