Birth and Breastfeeding Dynamics in a Modernizing Indigenous Community

Background: Changes in health care access and birthing practices may pose barriers to optimal breastfeeding in modernizing rural populations. Objectives: We evaluated temporal and maternal age-related trends in birth and breastfeeding in a modernizing Maya agriculturalist community. We tested 2 hypotheses: (1) home births would be associated with better breastfeeding outcomes than hospital births, and (2) vaginal births would be associated with...