Infant Nutrition - Breastfeeding

Pathway Contributor: Munira Shabber

Credentials:
Registered Dietitian

Affiliation Statement:
Nothing to disclose

Contributions:

• 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

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

  Role: Reviewer

• What supplementary milk feeds can a healthy, term, human-milk fed infant have and how are they delivered?  

  Role: Reviewer

• What are the infant (term) and gestational-parental health outcomes associated with mixed feeding (human milk and formula milk)?  

  Role: Reviewer

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