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JOURNAL OF HUMAN LACTATION
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 43-46Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0890334414554619
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breastfeeding; inner-city hospital; prematurity; quality improvement
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Breast milk feeding has advantages over formula feeding in premature infants, but its use in them is low. We initiated measures in our inner-city hospital such as starting a dedicated lactation service, counseling the mothers prenatally and postnatally, educating hospital staff, and advocating with our state's Medicaid insurance to provide free home breast pumps. These measures were associated with improvement in our breast milk feeding rates in very low birth weight infants from 22% to 88% over 5 years. This article describes our multipronged approach and can help encourage and guide other units with similar demographics to improve their breast milk feeding rates.
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