Maternity or parental leave and breastfeeding duration: Results from the ELFE cohort.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown a high level of noncompliance with recommendations on breastfeeding duration, especially in France. The objective was to describe the association between breastfeeding initiation and duration and the statutory duration of postnatal maternity leave, the gap between the end of legal maternity leave and the mother's return to work, and maternal working time during the first year post-partum. Analyses were based on 8,009 infants from the French nationwide ELFE cohort. We assessed the association with breastfeeding initiation by using logistic regression and, among breastfeeding women, with categories of breastfeeding duration by using multinomial logistic regression. Among primiparous women, both postponing return to work for at least 3 weeks after statutory postnat

SUBMITTER: de Lauzon-Guillain B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6859974 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature