Promoting and protecting human milk and breastfeeding during COVID-19

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) With stressors mounting daily on the health care system due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a de-prioritization of the childbearing family has been noted. Their care has changed, resulting in mothers forced to go through labor and birth without their partners, parents barred from NICU visitation, and discharge of mothers and newborns early without enough expert lactation care.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news