Sentences with phrase «breastfeeding means the difference»

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The mean number of months of exclusive breastfeeding was equal to 4.1, with important regional differences: the highest value was 5 months in the province of Trento and the lowest was 3.5 in Sicilia.

While many more people now have better access to drinking water, sanitation and health care, the world is still an unequal place: 2.5 billion — more than one third of the world's population — still have totally inadequate sanitation.16 Artificial feeding of an infant instead of breastfeeding in such settings can literally mean the difference between life and death.

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

There were no differences between groups for fetal loss equal to / after 24 weeks and neonatal death, induction of labour, antenatal hospitalisation, antepartum haemorrhage, augmentation / artificial oxytocin during labour, opiate analgesia, perineal laceration requiring suturing, postpartum haemorrhage, breastfeeding initiation, low birthweight infant, five - minute Apgar score less than or equal to seven, neonatal convulsions, admission of infant to special care or neonatal intensive care unit (s) or in mean length of neonatal hospital stay (days).

Controlled trials of exclusive versus mixed breastfeeding for four to six months, developing countries Infant outcomes Growth Weight gain was not significantly different between infants assigned to continued exclusive breastfeeding to six months versus those assigned to mixed breastfeeding from four to six months, with a mean difference (MD) in weight gain from four to six months of 20.78 g / mo (95 % confidence interval (CI)-LSB--21.99 to 63.54], p = 0.34; 2 trials / 265 infants) and from six to 12 months of -2.62 g / mo (95 % CI -LSB--25.85 to 20.62], p = 0.83; 2 trials / 233 infants).

Emma do you think, I mean, I've read where like Scandinavian countries where extended breastfeeding and breastfeeding in public is just the norm, that they..., that they must have a different perspective on the breast then because our breasts list taboo in their cultures and is this why we have such a significant difference compared to countries who are more comfortable breastfeeding in public and extended breastfeeding?

Estimated cognitive test mean score differences according to breastfeeding status at age 6 months are given in Table 5.

and she is super sarcastic, like me («cept I'm not mean, I don't think,) has a new baby, like me, and is breastfeeding, like me, so it's pretty fun to watch even though we do have some major differences as well.

Articles were included if they fulfilled the following criteria: 1) having been breastfed in infancy was compared with bottle (artificial) feeding, 2) systolic or diastolic blood pressure had been measured as an outcome, and 3) an estimate of the mean difference in blood pressure between breast - and bottle - fed groups could be extracted from the article.

The authors conducted a systematic review of published studies from which estimates of a mean difference (standard error) in blood pressure between breastfed and bottle - fed subjects could be derived.

In a random - effects model, the pooled mean diastolic blood pressure was lower among breastfed infants (difference: — 0.5 mmHg, 95 percent CI: — 0.9, — 0.04; p = 0.03).

In total, we were able to extract mean differences in total cholesterol between those breastfed and formula - fed from all 17 eligible studies (representing 17 498 subjects); of these differences, 13 were based on the response of individual authors (11 703 subjects), whereas 4 were obtained from the published literature (Figure 1 and Table 1 for both).

The pooled mean difference was similar in the 8 studies that measured blood glucose within the first 4 wk of life (7 after exclusive breastfeeding) and in 4 studies conducted in infancy that measured blood glucose 3 mo to 1 y after birth (a group likely to have been weaned).

Duration of breastfeeding was longer for intervention mothers than comparison mothers (mean difference 7.9 weeks; 95 % CI 2.9 to 12.9).