New York: Use of a mobile phone app that provides supportive texts and an online Facebook community can significantly increase the rate of breastfeeding among new mothers, new research has found, reports IANS.
The study results showed that 95 percent of the app users were currently breastfeeding three months after giving birth, compared with 83 percent of the control group. The same 95 percent were feeding babies breastmilk more than 80 percent of the time, compared with 78 percent of women who hadn’t used the app. “We wanted as many mothers and babies to take advantage of the health benefits of breastfeeding and all babies to be offered human milk as their first food, and we know that women of child-bearing age are in the generation most likely to own a cell phone,” said lead study author Maya Bunik.
