Other Environmental Exposures, Breastfeeding

September 20,2024

CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) is committed to increasing breastfeeding rates throughout the United States and to promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding practices toward the ultimate goal of improving the public's health.

Breastfeeding environment and experiences at the workplace among health workers in the Upper East Region of Ghana, International Breastfeeding Journal

Breastfeeding may expose infants to toxic chemicals, News

Microplastics found in human breast milk for the first time, Plastics

Study: Long-term Breastfeeding Leads to More Cavities

Breastfeeding, pregnancy, medicines, neurodevelopment, and population databases: the information desert, International Breastfeeding Journal

Views and experience of breastfeeding in public: A qualitative systematic review - Grant - 2022 - Maternal & Child Nutrition - Wiley Online Library

Plasma concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in pregnancy and breastfeeding duration in Project Viva,Science of the Total Environment - X-MOL

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Associations of Breast Milk Consumption with Urinary Phthalate and Phenol Exposure Biomarkers in Infants

Frontiers Maternal Microbiota, Early Life Colonization and Breast Milk Drive Immune Development in the Newborn

Environmental toxicants in breast milk of Norwegian mothers and gut bacteria composition and metabolites in their infants at 1 month, Microbiome

Mother's Milk and the Environment: Might Chemical Exposures Impair Lactation?, Environmental Health Perspectives

The risk of infectious pathogens in breast-feeding, donated human milk and breast milk substitutes, Public Health Nutrition

Breastfeeding Model Hospital Policy Recommendations

Breastfeeding and the environment: Guest post for World Breastfeeding Week 2020 - Our Milky Way