Researchers tested the level of breastfeeding after home visits from community trained lay breastfeeding counselors on 130 women in Mexico City. In one group 44 mothers were visited six times, and in another group 52 women were visited three times. A control group of 34 had no visits. At three months after delivery, 67% of mothers who had been visited six times were breastfeeding exclusively, compared to 50% of mothers visited three times and 12% of control mothers. There was a twofold decrease in diarrhea among the breastfed babies.
-The Practising Midwife, June 1999
Reprinted from Midwifery Today E-News (Vol 1 Issue 37, Sep 10, 1999)
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