Sheela R Geraghty
Biographic Data
| ID | 5498134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheela R Geraghty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheela R |
| FAMILY NAME | Geraghty |
| SIGNATURE | GERAGHTY S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5946-4630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Human milk‐sharing practices and infant‐feeding behaviours: A comparison of donors and recipients
Human milk sharing (HMS) is growing in popularity as an infant-feeding strategy in the United States. HMS families are a hidden population because HMS is a nonnormative and stigmatized behaviour. Thus, gaining access to HMS participants is challenging, and research on this topic remains limited. In particular, little is known about the broader infant-feeding behaviours of HMS parents. This study aimed to describe and compare the infant-feeding be…
Awareness and prevalence of human milk sharing and selling in the United States
There are limited data available about the prevalence of human milk (HM) sharing and selling in the general population. We aimed to describe attitudes toward HM selling among participants in a qualitative-interview study and prevalence of HM sharing and selling among a national sample of U.S. mothers. Mothers (n = 41) in our qualitative-interview study felt that sharing or donating HM was more common than selling; none had ever purchased or sold …
Breastfeeding” but not at the breast: Mothers' descriptions of providing pumped human milk to their infants via other containers and caregivers
As pumping has become more prevalent among American women, pumped human milk (HM) is on the rise in their infants' diets in place of some or all feeding at the breast. We aimed to fill a gap in knowledge about mothers' motivations, practices and perceptions related to pumping, and about mothers' and other caregivers' motivations, practices, and perceptions related to feeding pumped HM. Results related to providing pumped HM are reported here, and…
Breastfeeding” without baby: A longitudinal, qualitative investigation of how mothers perceive, feel about, and practice human milk expression
Most American mothers who produce human milk (HM) now pump in place of some or all feeding at the breast, and most American infants are now fed pumped HM. We aimed to investigate mothers' perceptions of, attitudes toward, and practices for pumping and providing pumped HM. Results related to pumping are reported here. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews among a diverse sample of 20 mothers who pumped, following each from pregnancy th…
Markers of Oxidative Stress in Human Milk do not Differ by Maternal BMI But are Related to Infant Growth Trajectories
Human milk expression as a sole or ancillary strategy for infant feeding: A qualitative study
In the United States, a significant proportion of human milk (HM) is now fed to infants from bottles. This mode of infant feeding is rarely measured or described in research studies or monitored by national surveillance systems. Consequently, little is known about expressed-HM feeding as an infant feeding strategy. Our objective was to understand how mothers use HM expression and expressed-HM feeding as a sole strategy or in combination with at-t…
Breast Milk Sharing via the Internet: The Practice and Health and Safety Considerations
Fatty acid composition in the mature milk of Bolivian forager‐horticulturalists: Controlled comparisons with a US sample
Breast milk fatty acid (FA) composition varies greatly among individual women, including in percentages of the long-chain polyunsaturated FAs (LCPUFA) 20:4n-6 (arachidonic acid, AA) and 22:6n-3 (docosahexaenoic acid, DHA), which are important for infant neurological development. It has been suggested that owing to wide variation in milk LCPUFA and low DHA in Western diets, standards of milk FA composition should be derived from populations consum…
Trends in breastfeeding: It is not only at the breast anymore
The past characterisations of breastfeeding as being only at the breast of the mother may no longer be applicable in the United States as mothers now frequently express their milk. We conducted a retrospective cohort study with women who visited the Cincinnati Children's Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic to understand breast milk feeding behaviours of healthy mothers and infants, which included questions specifically about breast milk expression. All…
The Quiet Revolution: Breastfeeding Transformed With the Use of Breast Pumps
A quiet revolution has been taking place in the feeding of US infants in the form of women using electric breast pumps. This revolution in milk expression may be a boon for both mothers and infants if more infants are fed human milk or if they receive human milk for a longer period. Milk expression may also be problematic for mothers, and it may be particularly problematic for infants if they are fed too much, fed milk of an inappropriate composi…
Sociocultural Influences on the Determinants of Breast-feeding by Latina Mothers in the Cincinnati Area
While breast-feeding initiation and duration among US Latina women appear to decrease with acculturation, health care providers in the Greater Cincinnati area have noted lower rates of breast-feeding among even first-generation Latina immigrants. This study's purpose was to identify determinants of breast-feeding for Latina mothers in Cincinnati through qualitative interviews and Spanish Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale ratings. Our findings sug…
The Quiet Revolution: Breastfeeding Transformed With the Use of Breast Pumps
A quiet revolution has been taking place in the feeding of US infants in the form of women using electric breast pumps. This revolution in milk expression may be a boon for both mothers and infants if more infants are fed human milk or if they receive human milk for a longer period. Milk expression may also be problematic for mothers, and it may be particularly problematic for infants if they are fed too much, fed milk of an inappropriate composi…
Sociocultural Influences on the Determinants of Breast-feeding by Latina Mothers in the Cincinnati Area
While breast-feeding initiation and duration among US Latina women appear to decrease with acculturation, health care providers in the Greater Cincinnati area have noted lower rates of breast-feeding among even first-generation Latina immigrants. This study's purpose was to identify determinants of breast-feeding for Latina mothers in Cincinnati through qualitative interviews and Spanish Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale ratings. Our findings sug…
The Quiet Revolution: Breastfeeding Transformed With the Use of Breast Pumps
A quiet revolution has been taking place in the feeding of US infants in the form of women using electric breast pumps. This revolution in milk expression may be a boon for both mothers and infants if more infants are fed human milk or if they receive human milk for a longer period. Milk expression may also be problematic for mothers, and it may be particularly problematic for infants if they are fed too much, fed milk of an inappropriate composi…
Fatty acid composition in the mature milk of Bolivian forager‐horticulturalists: Controlled comparisons with a US sample
Breast milk fatty acid (FA) composition varies greatly among individual women, including in percentages of the long-chain polyunsaturated FAs (LCPUFA) 20:4n-6 (arachidonic acid, AA) and 22:6n-3 (docosahexaenoic acid, DHA), which are important for infant neurological development. It has been suggested that owing to wide variation in milk LCPUFA and low DHA in Western diets, standards of milk FA composition should be derived from populations consum…
Trends in breastfeeding: It is not only at the breast anymore
The past characterisations of breastfeeding as being only at the breast of the mother may no longer be applicable in the United States as mothers now frequently express their milk. We conducted a retrospective cohort study with women who visited the Cincinnati Children's Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic to understand breast milk feeding behaviours of healthy mothers and infants, which included questions specifically about breast milk expression. All…
Breast Milk Sharing via the Internet: The Practice and Health and Safety Considerations
Human milk expression as a sole or ancillary strategy for infant feeding: A qualitative study
In the United States, a significant proportion of human milk (HM) is now fed to infants from bottles. This mode of infant feeding is rarely measured or described in research studies or monitored by national surveillance systems. Consequently, little is known about expressed-HM feeding as an infant feeding strategy. Our objective was to understand how mothers use HM expression and expressed-HM feeding as a sole strategy or in combination with at-t…
Breastfeeding” but not at the breast: Mothers' descriptions of providing pumped human milk to their infants via other containers and caregivers
As pumping has become more prevalent among American women, pumped human milk (HM) is on the rise in their infants' diets in place of some or all feeding at the breast. We aimed to fill a gap in knowledge about mothers' motivations, practices and perceptions related to pumping, and about mothers' and other caregivers' motivations, practices, and perceptions related to feeding pumped HM. Results related to providing pumped HM are reported here, and…
Breastfeeding” without baby: A longitudinal, qualitative investigation of how mothers perceive, feel about, and practice human milk expression
Most American mothers who produce human milk (HM) now pump in place of some or all feeding at the breast, and most American infants are now fed pumped HM. We aimed to investigate mothers' perceptions of, attitudes toward, and practices for pumping and providing pumped HM. Results related to pumping are reported here. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews among a diverse sample of 20 mothers who pumped, following each from pregnancy th…
Markers of Oxidative Stress in Human Milk do not Differ by Maternal BMI But are Related to Infant Growth Trajectories
Awareness and prevalence of human milk sharing and selling in the United States
There are limited data available about the prevalence of human milk (HM) sharing and selling in the general population. We aimed to describe attitudes toward HM selling among participants in a qualitative-interview study and prevalence of HM sharing and selling among a national sample of U.S. mothers. Mothers (n = 41) in our qualitative-interview study felt that sharing or donating HM was more common than selling; none had ever purchased or sold …
Human milk‐sharing practices and infant‐feeding behaviours: A comparison of donors and recipients
Human milk sharing (HMS) is growing in popularity as an infant-feeding strategy in the United States. HMS families are a hidden population because HMS is a nonnormative and stigmatized behaviour. Thus, gaining access to HMS participants is challenging, and research on this topic remains limited. In particular, little is known about the broader infant-feeding behaviours of HMS parents. This study aimed to describe and compare the infant-feeding be…
Medicine (11 works) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (10 works) · Breastfeeding (9 works) · Pediatrics (9 works) · Infant Nutrition and Health (8 works) · Breast milk (7 works) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (7 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Breast feeding (5 works) · Biology (4 works)