Breastfeeding and maternal alcohol use: Prevalence and effects on child outcomes and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Determine any effects that maternal alcohol consumption during the breastfeeding period has on child outcomes.

Methods

Population-based samples of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), normally-developing children, and their mothers were analyzed for differences in child outcomes.

Results

Ninety percent (90%) of mothers breastfed for an average of 19.9 months. Of mothers who drank postpartum and breastfed (MDPB), 47% breastfed for 12 months or more. In case control analyses, children of MDPB were significantly lighter, had lower verbal IQ scores, and more anomalies in comparisons controlling for prenatal alcohol exposure and final FASD diagnosis. Utilizing a stepwise logistic regression model adjusting for nine confounders of prenatal drinki

SUBMITTER: May PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4987236 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature