Lactation Counselor Training/ From Healthy
Children Project/ 179 Q&A.
Breastfeeding has been recognized as a health priority in tropical climates
since_________ - Answer: 1930s
In 2015 ______ deaths occurred in the neonatal period (according to Liu) -
Answer: 2.7 million
According to research women who do not breastfeed are at a (higher/lower) risk
for myocardial infarction and aspects of metabolic syndrome - Answer: Higher
According to research, women who do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for
__________, _______________, and _________________ cancers - Answer:
Breast, ovarian, endometrial
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,What are the three strategies for breastfeeding from the WHO? - Answer:
Promotion, Protection, Support
According to research studies, the fastest drop off in breastfeeding happened in
the first ______days after leaving the hospital. - Answer: 10
Mothers have been found to stop feeding in the first weeks mostly because of
__________________. - Answer: They are not making enough milk or perceive
they are not making enough milk.
Previously, the data we had on breastfeeding rates came from the
__________________, but in the 1990s, the _____ started to collect data. -
Answer: formula companies/ CDC
In the US, the first "goals of the nation" were developed in___________
for___________ - Answer: 1979 for 1990
In the 1980s, BFing rates in the US were___________at the end of the decade -
Answer: the same
According to studies by McKinney and colelagues, the mean duration of
breastfeeding in black families is more than __________(more/less) than for
white families. - Answer: 10 weeks less
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, According to the CDC< what is one reason there is such a disparity in white and
BLack breastfeeding rates? - Answer: Hospitals in primarily Black neighborhoods
do less to promote nursing than in areas with more white residents.
What is one target from the Healthy People 2020 goals that were not met by
August of 2019 according to reports? - Answer: To reduce the percentage of
breastfed newborns that receive breast milk within the first 2 days of life.
What does the Global Strategies for Infant and Young Child Feeding emphasize
providing parents? - Answer: the support they need to follow through and carry
out their crucial role!
Messages from the breast travel through the______________ system to the
_________. Then hormones travel to the__________ through the ____________.
- Answer: nervous/brain/breast/blood stream
From more recent research we now know that there are ______ nipple pores
functioning per feeding - Answer: 3-5
Which hormones are found in the pituitary gland? - Answer: Oxytocin & prolactin
Only new mothers have prolactin (true/false) - Answer: FALSE
As frequency of feeding decreases, prolactin levels ______________. - Answer:
Decrease
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Children Project/ 179 Q&A.
Breastfeeding has been recognized as a health priority in tropical climates
since_________ - Answer: 1930s
In 2015 ______ deaths occurred in the neonatal period (according to Liu) -
Answer: 2.7 million
According to research women who do not breastfeed are at a (higher/lower) risk
for myocardial infarction and aspects of metabolic syndrome - Answer: Higher
According to research, women who do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for
__________, _______________, and _________________ cancers - Answer:
Breast, ovarian, endometrial
Page 1 of 24
,What are the three strategies for breastfeeding from the WHO? - Answer:
Promotion, Protection, Support
According to research studies, the fastest drop off in breastfeeding happened in
the first ______days after leaving the hospital. - Answer: 10
Mothers have been found to stop feeding in the first weeks mostly because of
__________________. - Answer: They are not making enough milk or perceive
they are not making enough milk.
Previously, the data we had on breastfeeding rates came from the
__________________, but in the 1990s, the _____ started to collect data. -
Answer: formula companies/ CDC
In the US, the first "goals of the nation" were developed in___________
for___________ - Answer: 1979 for 1990
In the 1980s, BFing rates in the US were___________at the end of the decade -
Answer: the same
According to studies by McKinney and colelagues, the mean duration of
breastfeeding in black families is more than __________(more/less) than for
white families. - Answer: 10 weeks less
Page 2 of 24
, According to the CDC< what is one reason there is such a disparity in white and
BLack breastfeeding rates? - Answer: Hospitals in primarily Black neighborhoods
do less to promote nursing than in areas with more white residents.
What is one target from the Healthy People 2020 goals that were not met by
August of 2019 according to reports? - Answer: To reduce the percentage of
breastfed newborns that receive breast milk within the first 2 days of life.
What does the Global Strategies for Infant and Young Child Feeding emphasize
providing parents? - Answer: the support they need to follow through and carry
out their crucial role!
Messages from the breast travel through the______________ system to the
_________. Then hormones travel to the__________ through the ____________.
- Answer: nervous/brain/breast/blood stream
From more recent research we now know that there are ______ nipple pores
functioning per feeding - Answer: 3-5
Which hormones are found in the pituitary gland? - Answer: Oxytocin & prolactin
Only new mothers have prolactin (true/false) - Answer: FALSE
As frequency of feeding decreases, prolactin levels ______________. - Answer:
Decrease
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