1. The impact of maternal employment on breast-feeding duration in the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
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Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Lucy Jane Griffiths, and Carol Dezateux
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BREASTFEEDING ,MATERNAL health services ,CHILD care ,WORKING mothers - Abstract
AbstractObjectiveTo examine the relationship of maternal employment characteristics, day care arrangements and the type of maternity leave pay to breast-feeding for at least 4 months.DesignCohort study.SettingBabies aged 9 months in the Millennium Cohort Study, born between September 2000 and January 2002.SubjectsA total of 6917 British/Irish white employed mothers with singleton babies.ResultsMothers employed part-time or self-employed were more likely to breast-feed for at least 4 months than those employed full-time (adjusted rate ratio (aRR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.30 (1.17?1.44) and 1.74 (1.46?2.07), respectively). The longer a mother delayed her return to work postpartum, the more likely she was to breast-feed for at least 4 months (Pfor trend
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- 2007