@article{64,
  keywords = {Motherhood and mother involvement, Public policy, Health behaviors},
  author = {Pinka Chatterji and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn},
  title = {WIC Participation, Breastfeeding Practices and Well-Baby Care Among Unmarried, Low-Income Mothers},
  abstract = {<p>We estimated the effect of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participation in 1999 to 2000 on breastfeeding initiation and duration and well-child care. We applied multivariate regression to a sample of 2136 unmarried, low-income, urban mothers from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. WIC participation was associated with small increases in the probabilities of initiating breastfeeding and having had at least 4 well-child visits since birth{\textemdash}behaviors that benefit infants beyond the newborn period{\textemdash}but not with breastfeeding duration.</p>
},
  year = {2004},
  journal = {American Journal of Public Health},
  volume = {94},
  number = {8},
  pages = {1324-1327},
  url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448447/},
}