Lori B. Feldman-Winter, MD, renowned specialist in breastfeeding and Committee Member for the Academy of Pediatrics Section on Breastfeeding, was featured live on CNN with American Morning’s Kiran Chetry in New York City discussing the pros and cons of sharing breast milk with other mother’s who cannot breastfeed, and the safety of shared milk. She also commented on the positive benefits of giving breast milk to a baby.

The Star Ledger published an article about mother’s who are unable to nurse and are turning to online websites to find other women willing to share their breast milk. Sites such as milkshare.birthingforlife.com have grown in popularity as they connect families and provide information on milk sharing.

“We now recognize that human milk is far more than just good nutrition. It supports growth and the development of a growing infant,” said Lori Feldman-Winter, MD, Head of Adolescent Medicine at Cooper and a member of the executive committee for the section of breast-feeding for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “I unequivocally do not recommend casual sharing of human milk. I do recommend donor milk in situations when a mother can’t or should not give her baby her own milk; but that donor milk should be acquired through a donor milk bank.”

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Amudha Palaniappan, MD, and Lori B. Feldman-Winter, MD, presented new research at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference & Exhibition in San Francisco. The study, which was conducted at Cooper, found that African-American women are less likely to initiate and continue breast-feeding than women of other races.

Palaniappan, who was to present her research Monday at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ conference in San Francisco, asked 62 black mothers and 83 non-black moms, all of whom were exclusively formula-feeding their infants, why they chose not to breast-feed.

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Lori B. Feldman-Winter, MD, Head, Division of Adolescent Medicine at Cooper, was featured in an article in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics on the importance of educating medical staff on breastfeeding care.

In a study using trained residents, Dr. Winter, along with several other experts, found that a targeted breastfeeding curriculum for residents in pediatrics, family medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology improves knowledge, practice patterns, and confidence in breastfeeding management in residents.  It also increases exclusive breastfeeding in their patients.

“Physicians are influential in the decision to breastfeed and critical to the support for continued breastfeeding, yet numerous studies confirm that physicians and residents lack preparation and skills necessary to help mother’s breastfeed,” said Dr. Winter.

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Adoption of the “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding”

Lori B. Feldman-Winter, MD, MPH, FAAP

Lori B. Feldman-Winter, MD, MPH, FAAP, Head of Adolescent Medicine at the Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper and a member of the executive committee of American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Breastfeeding, has published a review of the recently released Perinatal Core Measures related to exclusive breast milk feeding in AAP News. These new guidelines, a component of the Perinatal Care Core Measures set by the Joint Commission, will address how hospitals support exclusive breast milk feedings and will enable hospitals to develop better methods of tracking breastfeeding while mothers are in the hospital. These new standards highlight the importance of exclusive breastfeeding.

“The newly released Perinatal Care Core Measures Set developed by the Joint Commission will stimulate better tracking of exclusive breastmilk feeding rates among delivery hospitals, a key driver in the support of exclusive breastfeeding initiation,” said Dr. Winter. “Enhanced support of exclusive breastfeeding will benefit mothers and children and result in a healthier nation.”

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