Maternal Smoking during Lactation: Relation to Growth during the First Year of Life in a Dutch Birth Cohort

A recent article by Little et al. ( Am J Epidemiol 1994; 140: 544–54) reported that infants in Seattle, Washington, who were breastfed by mothers who smoked gained more weight than either infants who were breastfed by mothers who did not smoke or infants who were bottle-fed by mothers who smoked. In this study, the authors aimed to verify this result with the use of data from the Social Medical Survey of Children Attending Child Health Clinics (SMOCC) cohort, a nationally representative cohort of 2,151 children born in the Netherlands in 1988–1989. During the first year of life, data on type o... Mehr ...