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Breastfeeding Education This Special Interest Group was approved by the NAPNAP Executive Board in Spring 2002. Click here to visit the BFE website or please contact Kelly Nordstrom, SIG Chair, at: kellynordstrom@comcast.net for additional information on activities. Interesting Information on this Subject: As breastfeeding advocates, it is good for us to know what the laws in our state are. Please review the laws in your state, and do what you can to advocate for needed changes. For a PDF document listing state laws on breastfeeding click here. Feel free to contact kellynordstrom@comcast.net with any comments or questions. Click here to access the BFE SIG Conference 2009 Flyer Click here to check out breaking news from the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC). Articles of Interest on this Subject: Prenatal and Postpartum Focus Groups With Primiparas: Breastfeeding Attitudes, Support, Parent-Infant Co-sleeping and Its Relationship to Breastfeeding
Stephanie D. Buswell, Diane L. Spatz
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
January 2007 (Vol. 21, Issue 1, Pages 22-28) Do Parents Follow Breastfeeding and Weaning Recommendations Given by Pediatric Nurses? A Study With Emphasis on Introduction of Cow’s Milk Protein in Allergy Risk Families
Andrea Mikkelsen, Lotta Rinné-Ljungqvist, Magnus P. Borres, Jenny van Odijk
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
July 2007 (Vol. 21, Issue 4, Pages 238-244) Barriers, Self-efficacy, and Intention
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
January/February 2006 Vol. 20, No. 1, pp 35-46
Moore ER & Coty MB Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practice of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
January/February 2004 Volume 18, No. 1 pp 8-14
Marks, J.M and Spatz, D.L. The HRSA 2005 Chart Book using SLAITS (telephone survey) parent reported data from the National Survey on Child Health has an emphasis on rural populations compared to urban and urban rural mix, is stratified by race, age cohorts and SES in many of the charts.
Includes Indicators: - breastfeeding
- tobacco
- children with special health care needs
- coverage
- injury
- obesity
- health care access
- missed school days
- behavioral issues
Maternal health and maternal mental health
http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/
Further queries of the data by state and other variables are also available.
A free hard copy can be ordered - eminently readable, a useful advocacy tool with management and Tribal leadership, reference for proposals, Child health chart book comes out every 4 years and alternately every 4 years a Children with Special Health Care Needs Chart book also comes out.
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