# USPSTF 2025: behavioral counseling interventions to support breastfeeding

Guideline · id `maternal:guideline-uspstf-2025-breastfeeding` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `c7fb95f1d15a7d13` (public)

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## In plain language

The 2025 statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force on primary care counselling to support breastfeeding. It recommends providing interventions or referrals during pregnancy and after birth.

## Technical summary

JAMA recommendation statement, 2025, B recommendation, titled Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Support Breastfeeding. Only the PubMed abstract was read. Whether it replaces the 2016 USPSTF statement (PMID 27784102) is not stated in the abstract, so no supersession link is written. The recommendation decision names the shared USPSTF record in core as issuer. The recommendation text is carried in the claim on the breastfeeding support page. The guideline's source is the USPSTF final recommendation statement page, which gives the statement date that the recommendation decisions use; the JAMA statement stays cited in the claims.

## Connected pages

- Issued by the US Preventive Services Task Force: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (`core:uspstf`)

## Provenance

Content hash: e2dba4abafd5f31c1b54ce2b987c0495316319a21d0b3658a9886182ec132984
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-14