Breastfeeding duration linked to maternity leave duration for new mothers

Healio (2/7, Welsh) reports, “Maternity leave duration has a strong positive association with breastfeeding duration for new mothers with disparities observed among different racial/ethnic groups, according to findings published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.” In the systematic review of 23 studies, “all non-review studies found a positive association between increased maternity leave and breastfeeding duration, and 95.2% of studies found a statistically significant relationship between the two variables.”

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— “Parents with shorter maternity leave quit breastfeeding sooner,”Erin T. Welsh, Healio, February 7, 2024

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