That is: are there any data or references about the fact that women who were themselves breastfed by their mothers, breastfeed their infants more often?
Thank you for any suggestion, Luigi
Data from immigrants in the USA a century ago show big differences in breastfeeding rates in different ethnic groups, presumably because mothers were passing on their experience. You will do much better looking at historical than modern data.
Thank you for your answer. I am sure that this effect exists and we have observed it in a cohort study, but have been unable to detect papers on it in medline - difficult to phrase the question, probably.
"have been unable to detect papers on it in medline"
Which is why you need to systematically read through the pre-Medline literature. There is a lot of high quality data, especially in European journals.
Check out Chandice Covington's research on
Sub-Saharan mother's and grandmothers - the grandmother's were shown to have a low incidence of breast cancer. she also has published re: Biomarkers in endothelial breast secretions.
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