A central goal of The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is the development of clinical protocols for managing common medical problems that may impact breastfeeding success. These protocols serve only as guidelines for the care of breastfeeding mothers and infants and do not delineate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as standards of medical care. Variations in treatment may be appropriate according to the needs of an individual patient.

International recommendations are that infants initiate breastfeeding within an hour of birth, breastfeed exclusively until 6 months, and continue to breastfeed, with the addition of complementary foods, until 2 years of age or beyond

During cupfeedings, premature infants are more physiologically stable, with lower heart rates, higher oxygen saturations, and less desaturations, than during bottlefeedings. However, cupfed infants took less volume, over more time, than bottlefed for these initial feedings. Based on better physiologic stability and no difference in untoward effects, cupfeeding is at least as safe, if not safer, than bottlefeeding in this population. This study supports the use of cupfeeding as a safe alternative feeding method for premature infants learning to breastfeed.

A central goal of The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is the development of clinical protocols for managing common medical problems that may impact breastfeeding success. These protocols serve only as guidelines for the care of breastfeeding mothers and infants and do not delineate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as standards of medical care. Variations in treatment may be appropriate according to the needs of an individual patient.Purpose

Background On December 31, 2019 the first case of what is now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was reported to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In late December 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, clusters of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause, linked to a seafood and animal wholesale market there, began to surface.

Background The first case of a novel coronavirus, now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or COVID-19, was reported to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on December 31, 2019. It rapidly spread outside of China and was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The speed with which reports are now appearing in the literature is astounding. Most are clinical, many coming from China where there is the longest experience. We continue to see no evidence of vertical transmission. On March 31, 2020, the date of this last writing, there are 808,313 confirmed cases and 39,013 deaths worldwide (Johns Hopkins University Medicine, 2020). These numbers rise daily and will certainly be higher at publication.

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The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is a worldwide organization of physicians dedicated to the promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding and human lactation. Our mission is to unite into one association members of the various medical specialties with this common purpose.