Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Position Statement and Guideline: Infant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
⁵ Children's Regional Hospital, Cooper University Healthcare, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
⁶ Maternal-Child and Adolescent Division, Public Health Service, Israel Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, Elmhurst, New York, USA.
⁸ University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rochester, New York, USA.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA.

Melissa Bartick et al. Breastfeed Med. 2021 Aug.

. 2021 Aug;16(8):587-590.

doi: 10.1089/bfm.2021.29188.abm. Epub 2021 Jul 27.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
⁵ Children's Regional Hospital, Cooper University Healthcare, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
⁶ Maternal-Child and Adolescent Division, Public Health Service, Israel Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, Elmhurst, New York, USA.
⁸ University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rochester, New York, USA.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA.

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