I once heard
human infants described as the most highly evolved parasites on the planet.
Not exact matches
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.»
Evidence - Based Model Crosswalk to Benchmarks: Model Alignment With Benchmark (PDF - 641 KB) U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services & Health Resources and Services Administration (2011)
Describes the Affordable Care Act Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), and how the act responds, through evidence - based home visiting programs, to diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities through collaboration at the Federal, State, and community levels.
The current statement is intended to revise the lists of agents transferred into
human milk and
describe their possible effects on the
infant or on lactation, if known (Tables 1 — 7).
Although a few reports of late onset GBS in
infants whose mothers also expressed GBS in their breastmilk are
described in the literature, with the standard medical treatment of breastmilk as just some infectious bodily fluid, no studies are to be found specifically comparing overall GBS infections in
infants to presence or absence of exclusive
human milk feeding.
Attunement processes between
humans are particularly
described for early interactions between
infants and their caregivers.
Susan Hespos, a co-author of the study, and associate professor of psychology at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences said, «We show that
infants can form abstract relations before they learn the words that
describe relations, meaning that relational learning in
humans does not require language and is a fundamental
human skill of its own.»
Describing the many ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience deep trauma, in a list «that would surely make the blood of any decent
human being run cold,» Parker said Indigenous people continued to die more than a decade earlier than their peers, suffer double the burden of ill health and
infant mortality, with unemployment four times higher and median incomes half, and disability for one in three.
Substance - Affected Families in Recovery U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Children's Bureau, National Abandoned
Infants Assistance Resource Center
Describes Meta House, an organization that provides a continuum of care to women and their children that helps strengthen and build family protective factors to increase child well - being, improves permanency, enhances safety of children that have been exposed to substances prenatally, breaks the cycle of substance abuse and family violence, and provides hands - on parent education and coaching.
Hofer supports his model by data on
infant rat separation stress and Field
describes «psychobiological attunement» between
human infants and their mothers and between young peers.