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A 9 page paper which summarizes three scholarly articles discussing the practice of breastfeeding and its discontinuation. No additional sources are used.
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practice that it promotes breastfeeding among members as "the preferred source of infant nutrition" (Freed, 1995). However, breastfeeding still remains a mysterious concept, and one that is all too
frequently discontinued after brief postpartum initiation for a variety of reasons. According to published statistics covering the period from 1989 to 1995, the initiation of breastfeeding in the United
States increased from 52.2 percent to 59.7 percent, with an increased rate from 18.1 to 21.6 percent at six months, with lower percentages for women of lower socioeconomic status (Ertem
et al, 2001). Why are these figures so low, with less than a quarter of all mothers included in statistical analyses terminating breastfeeding within six months or less after
giving birth? Three scholarly articles - "The Timing and Predictors of the Early Termination of Breastfeeding" by Ilgi Ozturk Ertem, Nancy Votto, and John M. Leventhal; "Breast-Feeding Education and
Practice in Family Medicine" by Gary L. Freed; and "Clinician Support and Psychosocial Risk Factors Associated with Breastfeeding Discontinuation" by Elsie M. Taveras, Angela M. Capra, Paula A. Braveman, Nancy
G. Jensvold, Gabriel J. Escobar, and Tracy A. Lieu - attempted to answer this question by conducting a series of research studies in an attempt to draw definitive conclusions while
at the same time encourage further research in areas that could provide further helpful insights. Ertem et al (2001), The timing and predictors of the early termination of breastfeeding, Pediatrics
107(3), 543-548 Ertem et al (2001) noted that in the United States, regional differences were evident in previously published breastfeeding studies. Since most of the available data was
predominantly limited to rural publications in the South, West, and Midwest, they sought to conduct a detailed study of low-income mothers from the urban Northeast. The lack of success
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