New research: Educating fathers on breastfeeding and breast milk increases the rate and continuity of exclusive breastfeeding

Toni Harman
4 min readMay 31, 2022

QUICK SUMMARY: New research from Iran shows that educating fathers of newborns about the “benefits of breast milk” and how to support mothers to breastfeed not only improves mothers’ breastfeeding practice, but also increases the rate and continuity of exclusive breastfeeding.

New research from Panahi F et al. (2022) finds that educating fathers on breastfeeding and breast milk increases the rate and continuity of exclusive breastfeeding. microbiomecourses.com
Toni Harman

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