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Help me find recent breastfeeding studies!

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I'm working on my certification to be a CAPPA lactation educator. As part of the certification, I have to review three breastfeeding studies conducted in the past four years. I'm having a hard time finding any. I checked PubMed and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get anything but the abstract. On KellyMom, I couldn't find anything past 2004.

Any ideas?
post #2 of 6
Do you have access to a university library? Once you have found an interesting article on PubMed, heading to a university library to photocopy the full article is the way to go. You can search for breastfeeding studies in open access journals on something like google scholar, but not many breastfeeding articles are available for free.

the best study I have (ever) seen is the PROBIT trial from Belarus - I think there have been 5-6 articles published from that trial - many in the last 5 years. I just posted about a new one with energy expenditure in premature babies in the lactivism form too.

Good luck!
post #3 of 6
I'd say go to the library & look for journals like Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, etc. Unless you have a subscription you'd probably need to pay to view many of the articles online.

There was a 2009 article in the Journal of Human Capital analyzing BF'ing & siblings.

There was also the one we were discussing in this forum this week ("BF'ing not as good" -- but the actual study itself was about androgen levels & BF'ing) that was just recently published.

HTH a bit...
post #4 of 6
Find 4-5 abstracts that interest you and then, as a pp said, go to your nearest university medical library to copy the full articles. I recommend a medical library because they are more likely to subscribe to some of the lower impact journals in which a lot of the articles about observational breastfeeding studies end up.

Or, since you only need 3-5 full papers, find a friendly academic or health care professional with institutional access and ask them to pull the pdfs for you. Not strictly OK, but for a small number of articles most people will do it for a friend/acquaintance.

Much easier: If you don't really care whether or not you review the most groundbreaking, talked about stuff of the last four years, check the relevant open access journals (if you do care, there are more and more high impact ones) and just pick three articles that interest you. E.g.:

International Breastfeeding Journal

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

BMC Women's Health

You could try nursing and family practice journals, too, as those are some of the main clinical areas that tend to publish on breastfeeding, and also some specific clinical journals, e.g., Diabetes Care (which is open access for most content.)

If you need a high impact journal, remember that some are open access for some content, e.g., BMJ puts the full text of most research articles up; the Canadian Medical Association Journal was open access until very recently (so there is still plenty of open content from the last four years, etc.)

Other journal sources: Directory of Open Access Journals
post #5 of 6
Thread Starter 
Thanks so much for the help!
post #6 of 6
There was also another one discussed on here recently - the so-called "cappuccino research" because the lead researcher was reported in the press as likening the effect of breastmilk pumped in the morning to that of a cappuccino, even going so far as to say that it was "a mistake for the mother to express the milk at a certain time and then store it and feed it to the baby at a different time."

No great surprise to find that the study was funded by an infant formula company...

The research article was published in Nutritional Neuroscience, and can be read here.
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