Breastfeeding

WIC & COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging Toolkit

The National WIC Association (NWA) created this WIC & COVID-19 Vaccine Toolkit for WIC agencies and partners to encourage WIC families to get vaccinated. This resource provides accurate and engaging outreach messaging […]

Enhancing the WIC Food Package: Impacts and Recommendations to Advance Nutrition Security

The WIC food packages advance health outcomes by addressing specific nutrient needs of infants, young children, and pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women. Consistent with analysis included in the 2017 report […]

WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study 2: Second Year Report

The study previously produced two reports, the Intentions to Breastfeed Report and the Infant Year Report. The current report focuses on caregivers’ employment, school, and childcare circumstances, as well as […]

WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study 2: Third year Report

The WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2 (WIC ITFPS-2), also known as the “Feeding My Baby” Study, captures data on caregivers and their children over the first 6 years […]

WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study 2: Fourth year Report

Overall, the study examines child-feeding practices, associations between WIC services and those practices, and the health and nutrition outcomes of children who received WIC around birth. This report, the fifth […]

WIC Participation and Breastfeeding after the 2009 WIC Revision: A Propensity Score Approach

The 2009 WIC revisions contained efforts to increase breastfeeding tools and support. This study examined the effect the revisions had on WIC participation and breastfeeding outcomes. They found that after […]

Process evaluation of a peer-led antenatal breastfeeding class for fathers: perceptions of facilitators and participants

The Parent Infant Feeding Initiative (PIFI) was a factorial, randomized controlled trial that aimed to prolong exclusive breastfeeding by targeting expecting fathers. One of the intervention strategies evaluated was a […]

“How am I going to become her friend?” WIC Breastfeeding peer counselors and cultural competence with African-American women: A qualitative secondary analysis

This qualitative study explored Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) peer counselors’ (PCs) cultural competence in their relationships with African American (AA) clients. A secondary analysis of […]

Long-Term Breastfeeding in African American Mothers

This article resulted from a doctoral dissertation and is published in the Journal of Human Lactation. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 39.1% of African […]

Breastfeeding and COVID-19 Guidance

With various recommendations circulating from medical, public health, and breastfeeding authorities regarding breastfeeding and COVID-19, it can be difficult to navigate which resource is best to use. The National WIC […]