Lactation Education exam questions 2023 with correct answers

U.S. Breastfeeding Initiation Rates 79.2% U.S. Exclusive Breastfeeding at 6 months 18.8% U.S. Breastfeeding at one year rates 26.7% Factors leading to the decline in breastfeeding 1. Women became interested in having an impact outside their home. 2. Scientific and technological advances resulting in safer alternatives to breast milk. 3. Faith in science and technology 4. change in labor and delivery practices 5. Marketing of artificial infant milk. Historically breastfeeding was the norm for feeding infants 1. Biological evidence (humans are mammels) 2. Ethnographic evidence (Inference made from modern day hunter gatherer) 3. Historical evidence (breastfeeding was the norm) wet nurse The act of a woman nursing a baby other than her own. This dates back to 2000BC. Factors leading to the decline in breastfeeding. Impact outside of the home 1.During the 1700's women chose not to breast feed for social reasons. 2.Women wanted to work. There was no support for women who wanted to breastfeed. Factors leading to the decline in breastfeeding. Scientific and technological advances 1. Before 1800's there was no clean water. 2. Formula was created in 1760 by Jean Charles des Essartz 3. By 1865 Justus von Liebig was a chemist who made substitute for human milk 4. BY THE 1970'S BREASTFEEDING HAS REACHED AN ALL TIME LOW IN THE UNITED STATES WITH ONLY 24% changes in labor and delivery practices 1. Births went from delivering at home with midwives to being in hospital. this started the mothers to be separated with babies 2. During the 1900's anesthesia was used during birth and women were essentially nocked out. Marketing Aggressive marketing through commercial, doctors, and facilities greatly influence mothers to bottle feed. Supplement is anything that is not exclusively to breastfeeding complement is during the time of weaning after 6 months or more