Impact of Food Supplementation during Lactation on Infant Breast-Milk Intake and on the Proportion of Infants Exclusively Breast-Fed

摘要: To evaluate whether milk production can be improved by increasing food intake, a randomized, double-blind, supplementation trial was completed among 102 lactating Guatemalan women. The subjects were undernourished, as indicated their low values for calf circumference (CC) and the small size of infants at birth. A high-energy (2.14 MJ/d, HES) low-energy (0.50 LES) supplement distributed 6 d/wk from wk 5 to 25 lactation. Data evaluated using repeated-measures analysis variance on increments initial each outcome variable with one-tailed tests statistical significance. maternal energy intake increased 1.18 MJ/d (P < 0.01) more HES than LES Benefit evident undernourished (CC