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Bottle feeding

What influences women to bottle-feed from birth and to discontinue breastfeeding early?

Breastmilk has been widely advocated as the optimal nutrition for newborn babies and infants In both developing and developed countries, extensive research has produced evidence to sustain claims that...

Women's experiences of body image and baby feeding choices: Dealing with the pressure to be slender

Women's bodies undergo many physical changes during pregnancy that may take them further away from their ideal body shape (Grogan, 2008), and some of these changes will carry over into the postpartum...

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