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Breast-feeding and postpartum maternal weight trajectories

L. Mullaney, Amy O’Higgins, S. Cawley, Rachel Kennedy, D. McCartney, Michael J. Turner

Public Health Nutrition · 2015 · 28 citations · 19 references

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Abstract

There are many reasons why breast-feeding should be strongly promoted but we found no evidence to support postpartum weight management as an advantage of breast-feeding.

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