Breast Feeding

"Breast Feeding" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The nursing of an infant at the breast.

Descriptor ID	D001942
MeSH Number(s)	F01.145.407.199 G07.203.650.195 G07.203.650.220.500.500 G07.203.650.353.199
Concept/Terms	Breast Feeding Breast Feeding Feeding, Breast Breastfeeding Breast Feeding, Exclusive Breast Feeding, Exclusive Exclusive Breast Feeding Breastfeeding, Exclusive Exclusive Breastfeeding

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Breast Feeding".

Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms [F01]
Behavior [F01.145]
Feeding Behavior [F01.145.407]
Breast Feeding [F01.145.407.199]
Biological Sciences [G]
Physiological Phenomena [G07]
Diet, Food, and Nutrition [G07.203]
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena [G07.203.650]
Breast Feeding [G07.203.650.195]
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena [G07.203.650.220]
Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena [G07.203.650.220.500]
Breast Feeding [G07.203.650.220.500.500]
Feeding Behavior [G07.203.650.353]
Breast Feeding [G07.203.650.353.199]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Breast Feeding".

Breast Feeding
Breast Milk Expression

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Breast Feeding" by people in this website by year, and whether "Breast Feeding" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 92 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2010 and 2013 and 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
1997	0	1	1
2002	2	0	2
2003	1	1	2
2004	2	1	3
2005	0	2	2
2006	2	1	3
2007	6	0	6
2008	2	1	3
2009	1	0	1
2010	7	1	8
2011	1	2	3
2012	3	1	4
2013	7	1	8
2014	3	0	3
2015	0	3	3
2016	3	0	3
2017	3	0	3
2018	2	3	5
2019	3	2	5
2020	2	1	3
2021	4	4	8
2022	4	0	4
2023	4	2	6
2024	2	0	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Breast Feeding" by people in Profiles.

Merhar SL, Hu Z, Devlin LA, Ounpraseuth ST, Simon AE, Smith PB, Walsh MC, Lee JY, Das A, Higgins RD, Crawford MM, Rice W, Paul DA, Maxwell JR, Telang SD, Fung CM, Wright T, Reynolds AM, Hahn D, Ross J, McAllister JM, Crowley M, Shaikh SK, Christ L, Brown J, Riccio J, Wong Ramsey K, Braswell EF, Tucker L, McAlmon K, Dummula K, Weiner J, White JR, Howell MP, Newman S, Snowden JN, Young LW. Infant Feeding and Weight Trajectories in the Eat, Sleep, Console Trial: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Oct 01; 178(10):976-984.

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O'Driscoll J, Burton A, Maskarinec G, Perez-Gomez B, Vachon C, Miao H, Lajous M, L?pez-Ridaura R, Eliassen AH, Pereira A, Garmendia ML, Tamimi RM, Bertrand K, Kwong A, Ursin G, Lee E, Qureshi SA, Ma H, Vinnicombe S, Moss S, Allen S, Ndumia R, Vinayak S, Teo SH, Mariapun S, Fadzli F, Peplonska B, Nagata C, Stone J, Hopper JL, Giles G, Ozmen V, Aribal ME, Sch?z J, Van Gils CH, Wanders JOP, Sirous R, Sirous M, Hipwell J, Kim J, Lee JW, Hartman M, Li J, Scott C, Chiarelli AM, Linton L, Pollan M, Flugelman AA, Salem D, Kamal R, Boyd N, Dos-Santos-Silva I, McCormack V, Mullooly M. Reproductive factors and mammographic density within the International Consortium of Mammographic Density: A cross-sectional study. Breast Cancer Res. 2024 Sep 30; 26(1):139.

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Murray M, Kai J, Dentinger A, Kaplan L, Roman M, O'Brien E, Kearney J, Kaneshiro B, Zhu F, Fialkowski MK. Prenatal intention to human milk feed in the native Hawaiian population: predictors of any human milk feeding from birth to six months postpartum. Int Breastfeed J. 2024 Aug 03; 19(1):54.

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Gross TT, Ludman M, Woods Barr A. "A Vulnerable Time To Be a Young Family in an Emergency": Qualitative Findings From an Exploration of an Emergency Perinatal and Infant Feeding Hotline in Louisiana. J Hum Lact. 2024 08; 40(3):464-474.

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Horta BL, Coca KP, Desai M, Dias MS, B Jaccottet M, Ross MG. Breastfeeding moderates the association of maternal pre-pregnancy nutritional status with offspring body composition at 30 years. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2024 Mar 15; 15:e3.

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Rollins L, Giddings T, Henes ST, Mubasher M, White C. Project DINE: Addressing Disparities in Nutrition and Maternal Mortality and Morbidity through Nutrition and Father Engagement. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2024; 35(3S):62-84.

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Mayerl CJ, German RZ. Evolution, diversification and function of the maternal-infant dyad in mammalian feeding. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2023 12 04; 378(1891):20220554.

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Buxbaum SG, Arigbede O, Mathis A, Close F, Suther SG, Mazzio E, Saunders-Jones R, Soliman KFA, Darling-Reed SF. Disparities in Infant Nutrition: WIC Participation and Rates of Breastfeeding in Florida. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 05 29; 20(11).

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Haley CO, Gross TT, Story CR, McElderry CG, Stone KW. Social Media Usage as a Form of Breastfeeding Support Among Black Mothers: A Scoping Review of the Literature. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2023 Jul-Aug; 68(4):442-448.

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Ochapa M, Baptiste-Roberts K, Barrett SE, Animasahun A, Bronner Y. The role of doulas in providing breastfeeding?support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Int Breastfeed J. 2023 04 21; 18(1):23.

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