Position Statements

Official ABM Position Statements on Key Issues

ABM has issued several Position Statements on core topics related to breastfeeding medicine. These statements serve the broader purpose of promoting, protecting, and supporting the importance of breastfeeding worldwide. Check back periodically, as these statements may be updated to reflect new findings and the views of our members.

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• Current Scope of Practice for Breastfeeding and Lactation — Medicine Physicians and Providers: Description of an Emerging Subspecialty
  
  
• Recommendation for Exclusive Breastfeeding: Avoidance of Underfeeding and Overfeeding (2024)
  
• Turkish Translation
• German Translation
• Koren Translation
• Supplementation Framework for Providers | Supplementation Framework for Parents
  
  
• Ankyloglossia in Breastfeeding Dyads (2021)
• German translation
  
• Consideration for COVID-19 Vaccination in Lactation (2020)
  
  
• Physician Education (2018)
• German Translation
• Informal Breast Milk Sharing for the Term Healthy Infant (2017)
• Hebrew translation
• Korean translation
• Breastfeeding (2015)

• Breastfeeding in Emergency Situations (2024)
• Shortage of Infant Formula (2022)
• World AIDS Day (2021)
• Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) (2020)
• Mothers in Workplace Employment or Educational Settings (2013)

• Paid Maternity Leave—Importance to Society, Breastfeeding, and Sustainable Development (2024)
• Breastfeeding as a Basic Human Right (2022)
• Attacks on AAPI Community (2021)
• Infant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender (2021)
• Health Equity (2020)

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