The LATCHING Pilot Project

Learning About Techniques to Create Healthy Infants Through Nutrition and Proper Growth

The purpose of this study is to learn if group-based phone counseling is effective for increasing breastfeeding rates, reducing the early introduction of solids and increasing maternal weight loss after pregnancy.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women who are 9-30 weeks in gestation that have not previously met breastfeeding recommendations
• Speak and understand English

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women with pregnancies conceived using fertility treatments, those at high risk for pre-term delivery, those with multiple gestation (ie. twins, triplets, etc), or pregnancies complicated by morbid obesity (BMI>40), diabetes (pre-gestational or gestational), hypertension, metabolic dysfunction, etc.
• Women who have previously exclusively breastfed an infant for three or more months