Table 1. Existing reviews on interventions for exclusive breastfeeding period.
| Review ID | Title | Interventions | No of
studies |
Included study
types |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kramer 2012 5 | Optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding
(Review). |
Exclusive breastfeeding
vs complementary food introduction at 4 months |
23 | Randomized trials |
| Lumbiganon
2016 10 |
Antenatal breastfeeding education for increasing
breastfeeding duration. |
Breastfeeding education for
increasing breastfeeding duration |
24 | Randomized trials |
| Haroon 2013 11 | Breastfeeding promotion interventions and
breastfeeding practices: a systematic review. |
Breastfeeding education or
support |
110 | Randomized
trials and quasi- experimental studies |
| Balogun 2016 12 | Interventions for promoting the initiation of
breastfeeding. |
Breastfeeding education,
support groups |
28 | Randomized trials |
| Giugliani 2015 13 | Effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions
on child growth: a systematic review and meta- analysis. |
Breastfeeding promoting
interventions |
35 | Randomized trials |
| Abe 2016 14 | Supplementation with multiple micronutrients for
breastfeeding women for improving outcomes for the mother and baby. |
Micronutrients mothers | 2 | Randomized trials |
| Ndikom 2014 15 | Extra fluids for breastfeeding mothers for
increasing milk production. |
Forced fluids | 1 | Randomized trials |
| Martin 2016 16 | Review of Infant Feeding: Key Features of Breast
Milk and Infant Formula. |
Infant nutrition | 6 | Randomized trials |
| Fleith 2005 17 | Dietary PUFA for Preterm and Term Infants:
Review of Clinical Studies |
Infant nutrition | 28 | Randomized trials |
| Conde-Agudelo
2016 18 |
Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and
mortality in low birthweight infants. |
Kangaroo care | 21 | Randomized trials |
| Moore 2016 19 | Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their
healthy newborn infants. |
Kangaroo care | 46 | Randomized trials |
| Delgado-
Noguera 2015 20 |
Supplementation with long chain polyunsaturated
fatty acids (LCPUFA) to breastfeeding mothers for improving child growth and development. |
Long chain polyunsaturated
fatty acids supplements |
8 | Randomized trials |
| Thiele 2013 21 | Maternal vitamin D supplementation to meet the
needs of the breastfed infant: a systematic review. |
Vitamin D supplements | 3 | Randomized trials |
| Becker 2016 22 | Methods of milk expression for lactating women. | Methods of lactation | 41 | Randomized trials |