Breast-feeding and Postpartum Maternal Weight Trajectories

Authors

Laura Mullaney, Technological University DublinFollow
Amy O'Higgins, UCD Centre for Human Reproduction · Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Ireland
Shona Cawley, University College Dublin, Ireland
Rachel Kennedy, Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, UCD Centre for Human Reproduction, Ireland
Daniel McCartney, Technological University Dublin, IrelandFollow
Michael J. Turner, University College Dublin, Ireland

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

3. MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES

Abstract

We examined whether breast-feeding, and in particular exclusive breast-feeding, was associated with maternal weight and body composition changes at 4 months postpartum independently of other maternal variables.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980015002967

Recommended Citation

Mullaney, L., O'Higgins, A. & Cawley, S. (2016). Breast-feeding and Postpartum Maternal Weight Trajectories. Public Health Nutrition, vol. 19, no. 8, pg. 1397-1404. doi:10.1017/S1368980015002967