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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006;160:323.

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The Anderson et al article¹ on a peer counseling intervention to increase exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is timely, given proposed Healthy People 2010 revised goals of 60% of mothers EBF at 3 months and 25% at 6 months.² Currently, just 46% of US mothers EBF at hospital discharge, while 17% do so at 6 months.³ The Anderson et al study involved several elements of "best practice" education and support, including prenatal home visits (n = 3), daily hospital visits, and postpartum home visits (n = 9), designed to boost EBF.

Anderson et al found dramatic differences in EBF rates through 3 months in this low-income Latina community. Results, reported as risks of non-EBF, suggest that 59% of intervention group women vs 44% of controls were EBF at hospital discharge. (Though unstated, one assumes this is a dichotomous variable and that all other mothers weren't EBF.) By 3 months, EBF rates fell but were still significantly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Karen A. Bonuck, PhD

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