An interdisciplinary approach to breastfeeding support

Vorobyeva I.N., Gmoshinskaya M.V., Aleshina I.V.

1) Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia; 2) Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology, and Food Safety, Moscow, Russia

Breastfeeding (BF) not only provides nutritional value but also serves as a means of communication between mother and child. It facilitates bonding with the biological mother, influences the child’s physical, neuropsychiatric, speech, and cognitive development, and improves health. It is the first stage in the development of breastfeeding dominant in the expectant mother. The prevalence and duration of BF is a manageable process determined, on the one hand, by the woman’s psychological readiness for motherhood and breastfeeding during the child’s first year of life, and on the other, by support from the family and maternity and childhood healthcare facilities (creating optimal conditions for initiating lactation and maintaining it throughout the first year of life).

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About the Authors

I.N. Vorobyeva, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Anthropology, Institute of Childhood, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6474-0751
M.V. Gmoshinskaya, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Age-Related Nutrition, Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology, and Food Safety, Moscow, Russia; mgmosh@yandex.ru, ORCID: https://orcid.org./0000-0002-9932-4720 (corresponding author)
I.V. Aleshina, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Age-Related Nutrition, Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology, and Food Safety, Moscow, Russia; rodionovaiv@mail.ru, ORCID: https://orcid.org./0000-0002-0363-9462

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