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Interventions that damage breastfeeding - never researched
Posted 12th Nov 09 By Denise Fisher
Just out of interest I thought we could start a list of the interventions that have been made that are detrimental to breastfeeding/or health of baby and were never researched before implementation.

Here's a biggie to start with:
Infant formula
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Re: Interventions that damage breastfeeding - never researched
Posted 14th Nov 09 By Kristen Bell
What about all this scheduling babies..baby wise...forcing your infant into a routine stuff. So many people are for waking your baby up every 3 hours..never feeding them until the 3 hour mark even if they are screaming with hunger. I think this is very detrimental. Many doctors and nurses still teach to be waking your baby up on a schedule. What do you think.
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Re: Interventions that damage breastfeeding - never researched
Posted 24th Mar By Amanda Groves
Also what about Dummies / Pacifiers?

They help mums miss the feeding "cues"
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Re: Interventions that damage breastfeeding - never researched
Posted 22nd Jun By Genevieve Becker
There are many activities that aren't researched. Major issue is to consider what is the intervention and what is the "norm". For example, some research examines keeping mother and baby together immediately after birth, rooming-in as an intervention and separation as the control or norm.
I have a list of projects if students or others are looking for ideas. I can add others that you suggest www.bestservices.ie
Intervention trials are considered better quality evidence than observational studies. It is very difficult (ethics) to do a trial that allocates one group to pacifiers (or whatever) and one group not to have them.
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Re: Re: Interventions that damage breastfeeding - never researched
Posted 22nd Jun By Genevieve Becker
I thought the whole URL would appear. After www.bestservices.ie go to Education, then Research and scroll to very end of the page for the link to the pdf of research topics.
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