WIC participation, breastfeeding practices, and well-child care among unmarried, low-income mothers

Pinka Chatterji and J. Brooks-Gunn

American Journal of Public Health, 2004, vol. 94, issue 8, 1324-1327

Abstract: We estimated the effect of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participation in 1999 to 2000 on breastfeeding initiation and duration and well-child care. We applied multivariate regression to a sample of 2136 unmarried, low-income, urban mothers from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. WIC participation was associated with small increases in the probabilities of initiating breastfeeding and having had at least 4 well-child visits since birth-behaviors that benefit infants beyond the newborn period-but not with breastfeeding duration.

Date: 2004
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