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Breast pain in lactating women--mastitis or something else?Lisa Helen Amir
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, La Trobe University
Aust Fam Physician 32:141-5. 2003..Mastitis is a common problem for lactating women. However, medical practitioners may not recognise that there are also other causes of breast pain during lactation...
A systematic review of maternal obesity and breastfeeding intention, initiation and durationLisa H Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 7:9. 2007..The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between maternal overweight and obesity and breastfeeding intention and initiation and duration...- Socioeconomic status and rates of breastfeeding in Australia: evidence from three recent national health surveysLisa H Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, and Breastfeeding Education and Support Services, Royal Women s Hospital, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 189:254-6. 2008..To investigate whether the relationship between socioeconomic status and breastfeeding initiation and duration changed in Australia between 1995 and 2004... - The role of micro-organisms (Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans) in the pathogenesis of breast pain and infection in lactating women: study protocolLisa H Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 11:54. 2011..The CASTLE study will also investigate the impact of physical health problems and breastfeeding problems on maternal psychological health in the early postpartum period... - Avoiding risk at what cost? Putting use of medicines for breastfeeding women into perspectiveLisa H Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Int Breastfeed J 7:14. 2012..We argue that if women require medication during lactation, all risks need to be considered - the risk of not treating the maternal medical condition may greatly outweigh the potential risk to the breastfed infant... 
Maternal diet and breastfeeding: a case for rethinking physiological explanations for breastfeeding determinantsLisa H Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Early Hum Dev 88:467-71. 2012..However, maternal infant feeding intention is a strong predictor of breastfeeding duration...- Infant feeding, poverty and human developmentAnnette Beasley
School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Int Breastfeed J 2:14. 2007..Improving women's physical and mental health will lead to better developmental outcomes for their children... - Maternal bodies and medicines: a commentary on risk and decision-making of pregnant and breastfeeding women and health professionalsKaralyn McDonald
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 215 Franklin St, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:S5. 2011..We will also consider the competing discourses that pregnant and breastfeeding women encounter when making decisions about medicine... - Survey of patient satisfaction with the Breastfeeding Education and Support Services of The Royal Women's Hospital, MelbourneLi Yen Chin
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 8:83. 2008..It is important to measure women's experience of visiting the service as part of quality assurance. The aim of this project was to conduct an anonymous postal survey of clients' satisfaction with BESS... - GPs' decision-making when prescribing medicines for breastfeeding women: Content analysis of a surveyHiranya S Jayawickrama
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Res Notes 3:82. 2010..Information on factors governing GPs' decision-making and their views in such situations is limited... - Social theory and infant feedingLisa H Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Int Breastfeed J 6:7. 2011..In this editorial, I introduce some of Bourdieu's ideas and suggest researchers interested in infant feeding should consider testing these theories... - Breastfeeding--evidence based guidelines for the use of medicinesLisa H Amir
Breastfeeding Education and Support Services, Royal Women s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 40:684-90. 2011..Most medicines can be used safely during breastfeeding at the recommended dose, however there are exceptions that necessitate caution... - Accreditation of midwife lactation consultants to perform infant tongue-tie releaseLisa H Amir
Centre for Women s Health, Gender and Society, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Int J Nurs Pract 17:541-7. 2011..We believe that nurses/midwives/lactation consultants working in other settings could be trained to perform frenotomies, thus enabling faster resolution of breastfeeding problems... - A descriptive study of mastitis in Australian breastfeeding women: incidence and determinantsLisa H Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 7:62. 2007.... - A case-control study of mastitis: nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureusLisa H Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 7:57. 2006..Mastitis is a common problem for breastfeeding women. Researchers have called for an investigation into the possible role of maternal nasal carriage of S. aureus in the causation of mastitis in breastfeeding women... - Women's experience of lactational mastitis--I have never felt worseLisa Helen Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 35:745-7. 2006..Mastitis is a common problem for breastfeeding women in the postpartum period... - Breastfeeding and Staphylococcus aureus: three case reportsLisa Amir
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, LaTrobe University, Carlton
Breastfeed Rev 10:15-8. 2002..When mothers or infants are nasal carriers of Staphylococci health professionals may recommend nasal mupirocin (Bactroban) and bathing with antiseptic washes to reduce recurrent staphylococcal infections... - Maternal smoking and reduced duration of breastfeeding: a review of possible mechanismsL H Amir
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, LaTrobe University, 251 Faraday St, 3053, Carlton, Australia
Early Hum Dev 64:45-67. 2001..To systematically review the possible mechanisms by which maternal smoking affects lactation... - Breastfeeding--managing 'supply' difficultiesLisa Helen Amir
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Aust Fam Physician 35:686-9. 2006..Many breastfeeding women have concerns about their milk supply; 'not enough milk' is the most common reason women give for stopping breastfeeding, however their concern is often unwarranted... - Two mid-pregnancy interventions to increase the initiation and duration of breastfeeding: a randomized controlled trialDella Forster
Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Birth 31:176-82. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: In settings where breastfeeding initiation is already high, neither study intervention could be recommended as an effective strategy to increase breastfeeding initiation or duration... - Test your knowledge. Nipple pain in breastfeedingLisa Amir
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 33:44-5. 2004 - Does maternal smoking have a negative physiological effect on breastfeeding? The epidemiological evidenceLisa Helen Amir
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, La Trobe University, Australia
Breastfeed Rev 11:19-29. 2003..Therefore, it is likely that psychosocial factors are largely responsible for the lower rates of breastfeeding found in women who smoke compared with those who do not... - Does maternal smoking have a negative physiological effect on breastfeeding? The epidemiological evidenceLisa Helen Amir
The Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Birth 29:112-23. 2002..The aim of this review was to assess the epidemiological evidence that maternal smoking has a negative physiological effect on breastfeeding... - Review of tongue-tie release at a tertiary maternity hospitalLisa Helen Amir
Breastfeeding Education and Support Services, Royal Women s Hospital, Victoria, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 41:243-5. 2005.... - Why do women stop breastfeeding? A closer look at 'not enough milk' among Israeli women in the Negev RegionLisa Helen Amir
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne 3010, Australia
Breastfeed Rev 13:7-13. 2005.... - The introduction of breast milk substitutes and solid foods: evidence from the 1995 National Health SurveySusan M Donath
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Fitzroy, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:481-4. 2002..To report the introduction of breast milk substitutes and solid foods to Australian children between 1992 and 1995... - Breastfeeding and the introduction of solids in Australian infants: data from the 2001 National Health SurveySusan M Donath
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 29:171-5. 2005..To present estimates on rates of breastfeeding and timing of introduction of solid foods to Australian children, 1998-2001...