The Every Moment Matters advocacy campaign aims to support alcohol-free pregnancies and safe breastfeeding practices across Australia. This report quantifies the social, economic, and health outcomes achieved through the campaign. The findings reveal that every dollar invested in the campaign yields substantial benefits delivering an economic return of $9.

Breastfeeding is a normal biological process and protects the health and well-being of mothers and babies. Yet breastfeeding continues to be undervalued by society, and in Australia women face multiple barriers to breastfeeding in the home, community, health care system and workforce. The Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO)...

This strategy document seeks to achieve an enabling environment for breastfeeding through policies, baby-friendly health settings, health professional education and training, and universal and targeted breastfeeding education and support services.

This review examines the effectiveness of strategies designed to improve breastfeeding considering their impact on breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration.

Being breastfed during infancy is known to improve developmental outcomes, but the pathways by which this occurs remain unclear. One possible yet unexplored mechanism is that breastfed infants may spend their time differently to infants who are not breastfed. This paper analyses infants' time use according to breastfeeding status in order to help inform the...