Sentences with phrase «given human infant»

Is sleeping with a baby normal and appropriate, given human infant developmental processes and the baby's expectations?

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One wonders how many novelists and, for that matter, how many sermonizers are prepared to confront in such detail this difficult fact about the human condition, that sooner or later most of us will be called on to give adults, to whom we are bound with the most powerful ties of love and respect, the services we associate with the care of an infant, with their sense of dignity, and our own, now and for all eternity, dependent on the delicate attention and sensitivity we bring to the task, even as they gaze upon us helpless and vulnerable.

While we think nothing of giving infants milk from a different species — a cow — the prospect of sharing human milk gives many people the willies, and I've heard the age - old practice, still common in many cultures, described as «gross, sick, twisted and overboard.»

Very - low - birth - weight infants who can not be fed mother's own milk or donor human milk should be given preterm infant formula if they fail to gain weight despite adequate feeding with standard infant formula.

Jansen J, Beijers R, Riksen - Walraven M, de Weerth C. Does maternal care - giving behavior modulate the cortisol response to an acute stressor in 5 - week - old human infants?

The lighter sleep, that all of these maternal - induced arousals promote, gives rise to what we consider to be «safer sleep» for infants especially for the level of neurological immaturity through which all human infants must pass.

Providing infants with human milk gives them the most complete nutrition possible.

Further studies are needed to understand the role of SPMs in infants who have been given human breast milk and the precise way SPMs may help an infant's immune system mature, but the research team hopes that their study will open up new areas of investigation for the field.

When we learn all we can about meeting our infants» biological needs for optimal physical and emotional human development we can give our babies and ourselves, as parents, the best possible beginning.

When an infant is not feeding at the breast, it is important that the principal goal be to help them receive the benefits of human milk.Medela has taken into consideration the potential risks and logistical challenges that NICUs face and gives NICU professional caregivers an overview of evidence - based logistical procedures for handling human milk in the NICU, and of how Medela's solutions can support and help to standardise this human milk pathway.

Mothers can further reduce the risk of infections by performing home pasteurization of donated milk prior to giving it to her infant; however, pasteurization can decrease some of the beneficial components of human milk.

The latest policy statement, «Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk,» published in 2012, reinforces the idea that «Given the documented short - and long - term medical and neurodevelopmental advantages of breastfeeding, infant nutrition should be considered a public health issue and not only a lifestyle choice.»

Darcia opened this first session, «Life Giving: Mindful Beginnings,» with a very interesting introduction to her new book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, particularly the early body - mind co-construction of the infant by caregivers.

Given the well - recognised importance of close contact in establishing breastfeeding, and the need for frequent suckling, anthropologists consider that mother - infant sleep contact is a normal, species - typical, parenting behaviour for humans.

Each time the infant squealed, Jiao Jiao gave it a tender pat with her hairy palm, cradling it the way a human mother does her newborn child.

To answer this question, researchers at UC San Diego Medical Center have launched a comprehensive program to study how breast milk can be fed to premature infants and to identify the ingredients that give human milk its life - boosting qualities.

«We've seen infants, tiny little humans, with diarrhea that just wouldn't stop after being given this formula.»

In one study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, infants (18 months) given supplemental arachidonic acid for 17 weeks demonstrated significant improvements in intelligence, as measured by the Mental Development Index.

[Note: In the same year, Planet of the Apes (1968) was given a Special Honorary Oscar for John Chambers» outstanding, convincing makeup (there was no Best Makeup category until 1981)- the Academy members presumably didn't realize the superior, too - believable makeup in the opening scenes of 2001 that included both human actors with life - like masks and infant chimpanzees.]

Mother «help» for humans as well as among other mammalian species is more effectively given performing other chores, such as provisioning for the nursing mother, or caregiving help for older children — not infant care.