Journal article
Knowledge of, and attitudes to giving expressed breastmilk to infants in rural coastal Kenya; focus group discussions of first time mothers and their advisers
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Background
The World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative step number five of the “Ten steps to successful breastfeeding” states “Show mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation even if they should be separated from their infants.” Urban mothers in Nairobi have low rates of exclusive breastfeeding after returning to work but there are no published data on rural Kenya mothers’ infant feeding practices when working or schooling away from h...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Authors
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Ruth Layton
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Alison Talbert
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Breastfeeding Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Pages:
- 16
- Publication date:
- 2018-04-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-28
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1746-4358
- Pmid:
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29719563
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:854033
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uuid:16b05973-dfc2-4586-a166-d4c6f9563dd1
- Local pid:
- pubs:854033
- Source identifiers:
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854033
- Deposit date:
- 2018-06-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Berkley et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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