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PLOS ONE
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117512
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- Fonds de Recherche Quebec-Sante (FRQ-S), Canada
- Universite Laval
- Fondations des Etoiles
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Healthy Pregnancy Initiative from the Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health
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Objective To evaluate incidence of breastfeeding initiation according to maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) in Grossesse en Sante a large prospective birth cohort in Quebec City. Methods Breastfeeding initiation in the post-partum period, pre-pregnancy BMI, sociodemographic determinants and obstetrical and neonatal factors were collected from years 2005 to 2010 in 6592 women with single pregnancies. Prenatal non-intention to breastfeed was documented in a subgroup of the cohort (years 2009-2010). Log-binomial regression analyses were performed to assess relative risk (RR) of non-initiation of breastfeeding between maternal BMI categories in models including pre- and post-natal determinants, after exclusion of variables with a mediating effect. Results Twenty percent (20%) of obese women did not initiate breastfeeding in the post-natal period at hospital compared to 12% for normal weight women. Compared with those having a normal pre-pregnancy BMI, obese women had a higher risk of non-initiation of breastfeeding (RRunadj 1.69, 95% CI 1.44-1.98), even after adjustment for prenatal and sociodemographic factors (RRadj 1.26, 95% CI 1.08-1.46). Furthermore, the risk of non-initiation of breastfeeding in obese women still remained higher after introduction of per-and post-natal factors (RR 1.22, 95% CI 1.04-1.42). The prenatal non-intention to breastfeed was strongly associated with the non-initiation of breastfeeding for all categories of BMI. Maternal obesity is associated with a two-fold rate of non-initiation of breastfeeding. Considering the benefits of breastfeeding and the increasing obesity rate, adapted interventions and specialized support should target both pre- and immediate post-natal periods in this population.
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