Breastfeeding Medicine

Overview

Breastfeeding Medicine is an authoritative, peer-reviewed journal created by physicians and dedicated to the advancement of breastfeeding worldwide. The Journal answers the growing demand for evidence-based research and explores the immediate and long-term outcomes of breastfeeding, including its epidemiologic, physiologic, and psychological benefits.

Breastfeeding Medicine coverage includes:

• Breastfeeding recommendations and protocols
• Health consequences of artificial feeding
• Physiology of lactation and biochemistry of breast milk
• Optimal nutrition for the breastfeeding mother
• Breastfeeding indications and contraindications
• Managing breastfeeding discomfort, pain, and other complications
• Breastfeeding the premature or sick infant
• Breastfeeding in the chronically ill mother
• Management of the breastfeeding mother on medication
• Infectious disease transmission through breast milk and breastfeeding
• The collection and storage of human milk and human milk banking
• Measuring the impact of being a “baby-friendly” hospital 
• Cultural competence and cultural sensitivity
• International public health issues including social and economic issues 

Breastfeeding Medicine is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Ruth A. Lawrence, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong; Senior Associate Editor Cynthia R. Howard, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester General Hospital; and other leading investigators. View the entire editorial board.

Audience: Physicians, pediatricians, growth and development specialists, midwives and perinatal nurses, obstetricians, and gynecologists, among others

Society Affiliation

The Official Journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine