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'Informal' learning to support breastfeeding: local problems and opportunities

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

A healthier Start4Life

A prospective randomised trial on the effect of position in the passive second stage of labour on birth outcome in nulliparous women using epidural analgesia

scientific article published in June 2004

A randomised controlled trial of care of the perineum during second stage of normal labour.

scientific article published in December 1998

A review of the literature on the midwife and community-based maternity care.

scientific article published in June 2001

A review of the literature on women's views on their maternity care in the community in the UK.

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A systematic approach for midwifery students: how to consider evidence-based research findings

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

A systematic review of education and evidence-based practice interventions with health professionals and breast feeding counsellors on duration of breast feeding

scientific article published on 5 April 2007

A systematic review to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to promote the initiation of breastfeeding

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Achieving the best from care in early labour

scientific article published on 28 August 2008

Addressing the learning deficit in breastfeeding: strategies for change

scientific article published in October 2006

Antenatal care trial interventions: a systematic scoping review and taxonomy development of care models

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Asking Different Questions: A Call to Action for Research to Improve the Quality of Care for Every Woman, Every Child

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Asking different questions: A call to action for research to improve the quality of care for every woman, every child

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Asking different questions: A call to action for research to improve the quality of care for every woman, every child

scientific article published on 23 June 2018

Asking different questions: A call to action for research to improve the quality of care for every woman, every child

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Asking different questions: research priorities to improve the quality of care for every woman, every child

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Assessing learning needs for breastfeeding: setting the scene

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Assessing levels of contaminants in breast milk: methodological issues and a framework for future research

scientific article published on January 2008

Being a ‘good mother’: Managing breastfeeding and merging identities

scientific article published on 06 August 2007

Being baby friendly: evidence-based breastfeeding support

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Best practice into common practice

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Breast feeding and child behaviour in the Millennium Cohort Study

scientific article published on May 9, 2011

Breastfeeding and educational achievement at age 5

scientific article published on March 29, 2012

Breastfeeding education and support for women with multiple pregnancies

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Breastfeeding education and support for women with twins or higher order multiples.

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Breastfeeding for longer: what works?

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Breastfeeding in England: time trends 2005-2006 to 2012-2013 and inequalities by area profile

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Breastfeeding in the 21st century

Breastfeeding is associated with improved child cognitive development: a population-based cohort study

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Breastfeeding promotion for infants in neonatal units: a systematic review

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Breastfeeding promotion for infants in neonatal units: a systematic review and economic analysis

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Can food vouchers improve nutrition and reduce health inequalities in low-income mothers and young children: a multi-method evaluation of the experiences of beneficiaries and practitioners of the Healthy Start programme in England

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Cleaning and sterilisation of infant feeding equipment: a systematic review

scientific article published on 26 February 2008

Cluster randomised controlled trial of a financial incentive for mothers to improve breast feeding in areas with low breastfeeding rates: the NOSH study protocol

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

Commercial hospital discharge packs for breastfeeding women

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Community-based maternity care in 2008.

scientific article published in March 2008

Conducting international research in midwifery: a workshop held at the ICM Congress, Vienna, April 2002

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Conducting international research in midwifery: a workshop held at the ICM Congress, Vienna, April 2002.

scientific article published in September 2003

Continuity of carer: what matters to women? A review of the evidence

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Costs and savings of parenting interventions: results of a systematic review.

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Countdown to 2015 for maternal, newborn, and child survival

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Developing evidence-based recommendations in public health--incorporating the views of practitioners, service users and user representatives

scientific article published on March 2008

Developing high-quality research in midwifery: lessons learned from the midwifery research database, MIRIAD.

scientific article published in September 2000

Developing practice in breastfeeding

scientific article published on October 2006

Distribution of genital tract trauma in childbirth and related postnatal pain

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Does cultural context make a difference to women's experiences of maternity care? A qualitative study comparing the perspectives of breast-feeding women of Bangladeshi origin and health practitioners

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Early versus delayed initiation of breastfeeding

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Economic evaluation of enhanced staff contact for the promotion of breastfeeding for low birth weight infants

scientific article published on April 2010

Education and training of healthcare staff in the knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to work effectively with breastfeeding women: a systematic review

scientific article published on January 2016

Effect of Financial Incentives on Breastfeeding: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Effective care in pregnancy and childbirth: a synopsis

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Enabling women to breast feed

scientific article published on 25 September 2008

Encouraging breastfeeding: financial incentives.

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Ethics and morality in midwifery research

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

Exploring determinants of, and interventions for, delayed presentation of women with breast symptoms: A systematic review

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Factors associated with breastfeeding in England: an analysis by primary care trust

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Factors influencing the infant feeding decision for socioeconomically deprived pregnant teenagers: the moral dimension

scientific article published on June 2010

Family planning, health systems, and the health workforce

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Feeding schedules in hospitals for newborn infants

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Fetal and perinatal consequences of maternal obesity

scientific article published on 07 June 2010

Formula feed preparation: helping reduce the risks; a systematic review

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Galactorrhoea, hyperprolactinaemia, and protease inhibitors

Gaps in the evidence for prevention and treatment of maternal anaemia: a review of systematic reviews

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Global trends and patterns of commercial milk-based formula sales: is an unprecedented infant and young child feeding transition underway?

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Guidance for the Conduct and Reporting of Clinical Trials of Breast Milk Substitutes

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Healthcare providers' views on the acceptability of financial incentives for breastfeeding: a qualitative study

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Healthy Start vitamins--a missed opportunity: findings of a multimethod study

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How does integrated knowledge translation (IKT) compare to other collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge? Learning from experts in the field

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Immersion in water during labor and birth: the need for evaluation

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Improvement of maternal and newborn health through midwifery

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Improving midwifery care worldwide--authors' reply

scientific article published in January 2015

Infant feeding comparisons: a hazard to infant health?

scientific article published on 01 June 1991

Interventions for influencing sleep patterns in exclusively breastfed infants

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Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding

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Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding.

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Interventions for treating painful nipples among breastfeeding women

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Labour and birth in water

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Lay perspectives: advantages for health research

scientific article published on February 7, 1998

Mapping breastfeeding services: a method to inform effective implementation and evaluation of evidence-based policy in practice

scientific article published on 28 May 2012

Maternal health post-2015

scientific article published in The Lancet

Maternal obesity: consequences for children, challenges for clinicians and carers

scientific article published on 13 October 2009

Maximising the availability and use of high-quality evidence for policymaking: collaborative, targeted and efficient evidence reviews

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Men and infant feeding: perceptions of embarrassment, sexuality, and social conduct in white low-income British men.

scientific article published on 4 January 2011

Methods of milk expression for lactating women

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Midwifery - a vital path to quality maternal and newborn care: the story of the Lancet Series on Midwifery

scientific article published on 28 August 2014

Midwifery and Quality Care

Midwifery and quality care: findings from a new evidence-informed framework for maternal and newborn care

scientific article published on 22 June 2014

Midwifery is a vital solution-What is holding back global progress?

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Midwifery-led antenatal care models: mapping a systematic review to an evidence-based quality framework to identify key components and characteristics of care

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Motivating Change: a grounded theory of how to achieve large-scale, sustained change, co-created with improvement organisations across the UK

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

National collaborating centres for maternal and child nutrition

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Optimising the contribution of midwifery to preventing stillbirths and improving the overall quality of care: Co-ordinated global action needed

scientific article published in May 2016

Oxytocin for promoting successful lactation

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Policy and public health recommendations to promote the initiation and duration of breast-feeding in developed country settings

scientific article published on 18 August 2009

Positioning the baby at the breast: more than a visual skill

scientific article published on 01 March 1989

Potential economic impacts from improving breastfeeding rates in the UK.

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Practices that minimize trauma to the genital tract in childbirth: a systematic review of the literature

scientific article published in September 1998

Pre-service and in-service education and training for maternal and newborn care providers in low- and middle-income countries: An evidence review and gap analysis

scientific article published on 10 August 2019

Predicting breastfeeding in women living in areas of economic hardship: Explanatory role of the theory of planned behaviour

scientific article published in January 2008

Promoting the initiation of breast feeding

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Rethinking research in breast-feeding: a critique of the evidence base identified in a systematic review of interventions to promote and support breast-feeding

scientific article published on 5 March 2007

Routinely collected infant feeding data: Time for global action

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

Scaling up care by midwives must now be a global priority

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Spotlight on infant formula: coordinated global action needed

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Studying the infant feeding intentions of pregnant women experiencing material deprivation: methodology of the Looking at Infant Feeding Today (LIFT) study

scientific article published on 10 January 2009

Support for breastfeeding mothers

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Support for breastfeeding mothers: a systematic review

scientific article published on October 2003

Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies

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Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Sustaining quality education and practice learning in a pandemic and beyond: ‘I have never learnt as much in my life, as quickly, ever’

scientific article published in March 2021

Sustaining quality midwifery care in a pandemic and beyond

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Symbols of fertility?

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Teaching and support: nursing input in the postpartum period

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

The conduct of ethical research collaboration across international and culturally diverse communities

scientific article published on 12 May 2006

The economic benefits of increasing kangaroo skin-to-skin care and breastfeeding in neonatal units: analysis of a pragmatic intervention in clinical practice

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

The impact of transnational migration on intergenerational transmission of knowledge and practice related to breast feeding

scientific article published on 4 June 2013

The provision of midwife-led care in low-and middle-income countries: An integrative review

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Time to get serious about educating health professionals

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Tongue tie

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Tongue ties and breast feeding * Authors' reply

scientific article published on June 2006

Treatments for breast engorgement during lactation.

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Turning policy into practice: more difficult than it seems. The case of breastfeeding education

scientific article published on April 2006

Understanding the experiences of married Southern African women in protecting themselves from HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-synthesis

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Using an extended theory of planned behaviour to inform interventions aimed at increasing breastfeeding uptake in primiparas experiencing material deprivation

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

Using evidence in practice: What do health professionals really do?

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Using qualitative research findings to analyse how breastfeeding public health recommendations can be tailored to meet the needs of women of Bangladeshi origin living in England

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Valuing Breastfeeding: Health Care Professionals’ Experiences of Delivering a Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme for Breastfeeding in Areas With Low Breastfeeding Rates

scientific article published in April 2018

Valuing breastfeeding: a qualitative study of women's experiences of a financial incentive scheme for breastfeeding.

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Vitamin K policies and midwifery practice: questionnaire survey

scientific article published on May 2001

WITHDRAWN: Commercial hospital discharge packs for breastfeeding women

retracted scientific article published on January 2000

WITHDRAWN: Treatments for breast engorgement during lactation

retracted scientific article published on January 2001

When to wean. Analysis article on breast feeding was misleading

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

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