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What dietary supplements are necessary for healthy full-term breastfed infants?
Role: Reviewer
In a newborn infant, term and near term (35 to 36 completed weeks gestation), with hyperbilirubinemia, should breastfeeding be discontinued?
Are there safety concerns for the ingestion of fish in women who are pregnant, planning to become pregnant or breastfeeding related to mercury contamination?
What are the risks to the infant when the breastfeeding mother uses illicit drugs?
What are the risks to the infant when the breastfeeding mother consumes alcohol?
What are the risks to the infant and the quality of breastmilk when breastfeeding mothers smoke cigarettes or use snuff?
How long can breastmilk be stored and under what conditions?
What types of containers are appropriate for storing breastmilk?
Does warming breastmilk by microwave heating affect the nutrients and/or immune properties compared to breastmilk warmed by other methods?
What are the infant and maternal health outcomes associated with breastfeeding for six to 12 months or more compared to outcomes of infants and mothers who stop breastfeeding before six months?
What are the infant and maternal health outcomes associated with breastfeeding compared to infant formula feeding?
Lactation/Breastfeeding Background
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