Perinatal and neonatal nurses have a critical role to play in effectively addressing the
disproportionate prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes experienced by black …

Introduction Although breastfeeding has been shown to improve health outcomes for infants,
African American women initiate and continue breastfeeding at lower rates than women from …

Background: Disparities in breastfeeding (BF) continue to be a public health challenge, as
currently only 42% of infants in the world and 25.6% of infants in the United States are …

Background: The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine revised the 2015 version of this
clinical protocol to review the evidence and provide recommendations related to …

22 Journal of Human Lactation 38 (1) weaknesses. For example, a single summary score
may not appropriately capture weak evidence, whereas a rating of articles using an ordinal …

Background Despite significant improvements, postpartum family planning uptake remains
low for women in sub-Saharan Africa. Transmitting family planning education in a …

Objective Breastfeeding has multiple benefits for women and babies. Understanding factors
contributing to intention to exclusively breastfeed may allow for improving the rates in first …

To compare birth outcomes for patients receiving Expect With Me (EWM) group prenatal
care or individual care only, we conducted a type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial …

Abstract Objective We examined whether Medicaid-enrolled women in CenteringPregnancy
group prenatal care had higher rates of (1) postpartum visit attendance and (2) postpartum …

Introduction: MamaCare is an adaptation of the CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care
model designed to support women when the pregnancy has been complicated by the …