VOICES FROM THE FIELD- Breastfeeding Education and Support: A Practice Perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
La Leche League Canada (LLLC) (la lay-chay) and Ligue la Leche are the two Canadian affiliates of La Leche League International (LLLI), providing mother-to-mother services in English and French respectively to thousands of pregnant and breastfeeding women annually. It is from this perspective that we have reviewed the articles on breastfeeding and related topics in the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development online encyclopedia. Breastfeeding is important to the health of the population even in developed countries and particularly for disadvantaged women and children. Health Canada1 and the Canadian Paediatric Society2 recommend exclusive breastfeeding to six months, appropriate introduction of solids and then continued breastfeeding to two years and beyond. LLLC provides practical help to meet these recommendations. There is much more work to be done to create an environment in which breastfeeding is seen not only as the normal way to feed babies, as stated by Greiner,3 but also the normal way to nurture babies and young children and to foster the development of the mother-baby relationship. We were disappointed that breastfeeding was so rarely mentioned in the encyclopedia
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.022 | 0.039 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.016 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".