Low rates of predominant breastfeeding in hospital after gestational diabetes, particularly among Indigenous women in Australia.

CONCLUSIONS: Rates of predominant in-hospital breastfeeding were lower among women with GDM, particularly among Indigenous women and women having a caesarean or pre-term birth.
IMPLICATIONS: Strategies are needed to support predominant in-hospital breastfeeding among women with GDM.
PMID: 28110518 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - January 21, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Chamberlain CR, Wilson AN, Amir LH, O'Dea K, Campbell S, Leonard D, Ritte R, Mulcahy M, Eades S, Wolfe R Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research