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.
To avoid spurious associations and to identify reverse causality, longitudinal studies are necessary to establish the chronology of cessation of breastfeeding to growth faltering.
Some workplaces made provision for women to breastfeed their infants in the mid-day break if the child was left nearby.
It is these factors and not prolonged breastfeeding per se, which account for the association with malnutrition and diarrhoeal disease.
Alternatively, it is possible that continued breastfeeding, operating through some hormonal mechanism, reduces the child's appetite and acceptance of other, more energy dense foods.
In the present study an important predictor was guidance on breastfeeding from public health nurses.
Also, reduced periods of breastfeeding associated with high fertility rates could affect mortality.
The protection afforded by breastfeeding seems to have been fundamental in the case of children under one year of age.
In the logistic regression analysis, only breastfeeding status was a significant factor for oropharyngeal colonization.
