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