Infant Nutrition - Breastfeeding

Pathway Contributor: Marg Alfieri

Contributions:

• What dietary supplements are necessary for healthy full-term human milk-fed infants?  

  Role: Reviewer

• In a newborn infant, term and near term (35 to 36 completed weeks gestation), with hyperbilirubinemia, should breastfeeding be discontinued?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What are the risks to the infant when the lactating individual uses drugs (e.g. cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, hallucinogens, opioids)?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What are the risks to the infant and the quality of human milk when lactating individuals smoke cigarettes or use snuff?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What are the risks to the infant when the lactating individual consumes alcohol?  

  Role: Reviewer

• Does warming human milk by microwave heating affect the nutrients and/or immune properties compared to human milk warmed by other methods?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What types of containers are appropriate for storing human milk?  

  Role: Reviewer

• How long can human milk be stored and under what conditions?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What are the infant and gestational-parental health outcomes associated with breastfeeding compared to infant formula feeding?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What are the infant and gestational-parental health outcomes associated with breastfeeding for six to 12 months or more compared to outcomes of infants and gestational parents who stop breastfeeding before six months?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What are the benefits of breastfeeding on cancer prevention for the lactating individual and infant?  

  Role: Reviewer

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