This study was designed to examine the effect of
human milk feedings on the incidence of infection and sepsis / meningitis among hospitalized, VLBW infants controlling for potential confounding variables.
No studies have compared exclusive prolonged hydrolyzed (including both partially and extensively hydrolyzed formulas) formula feeding (more than 3 days) with
human milk feeding on the incidence of atopic disease.
Not exact matches
Incorrect information: bleh you can write so much
on that - but suffice to say I think that is CRIMINAL for a health care provider to not know about breast
feeding, the way that
human babies get
human milk.
But imagine the marketing potential: Organic grass -
fed human breast -
milk cheese could be the ultimate Whole Foods product, as long as the women aren't housed
on factory farms or given artificial hormones to increase
milk production and everything is certified.
From La Leche League's website, «Research has shown that healthy, full - term breastfeeding infants have a remarkable ability to regulate their own
milk intake when they are allowed to nurse «
on cue» and that mothers» rates of
milk production are closely related to how much
milk their babies take...
Human beings have survived and flourished because mothers have met these needs by responding freely to their babies» cues and behavior, particularly their
feeding behaviors.»
The American Association of Pediatricians statement
on breastfeeding and the use of
human milk (2005) states, «Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative model against which all alternative
feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development and all other short and long - term outcomes.»
Indeed, I argue that the cultural dismantling of the three basic components of normal
human infant sleep i.e. sleep position (
on the back for breastfeeding which was changed to prone sleep),
feeding method (from breastfeeding to formula or cows
milk, bottle
feeding) and infant sleep location (from next to the mother within sensory range to nighttime separation, a separate room) fostered and promoted the SIDS epidemic which is was limited to the industrialized, western world.
Human milk is the preferred
feeding for all infants, including premature and sick newborns, with rare exceptions.75 - 77 The ultimate decision
on feeding of the infant is the mother's.
Casein is significantly lower in
human milk, whereas it is significantly higher in cow's
milk, making cow
milk tough for
human babies to digest, and making
human milk unfit for
feeding to baby cows... All mammals have some whey protein in their
milk - it is merely in different compositions depending
on the mammal and the needs of that species» young.
Previous studies of the effect of breastfeeding
on morbidity among full - term infants have not always accounted for selection bias that may result if infants who are breastfed are inherently healthier than bottle -
fed infants.22 In the current study, the VLBW infants» ability to breastfeed did not reflect better health status as both
human milk and infant formula were provided via gavage
feeding especially during early enteral
feedings.
«We were surprised by our findings because of the high number of centers that indicated they would follow a
human -
milk feeding plan, but a large number of them didn't have staff that was properly trained
on how to handle it,» said Spatz.
The pregnancy section would outline any known risks a given drug may pose to a fetus, while the lactation section would list any known details about «the drug's impact
on milk production, what is known about the presence of the drug in
human milk, and the effects
on the breast -
fed child.»
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol Committee # 8 explains that thawed
milk should be
fed within 24 hours, but «There is little information
on refreezing of thawed
human milk.
The study was the first of its kind to compare the risk of developing NEC and requiring NEC surgery among premature infants
on an exclusively
human milk diet versus those
fed preterm infant formula derived from cow's
milk (http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/
Human-Donor-
Milk-Lower-Risk-for-Premature-Babies.aspx).
Categories of high
human milk consumption (80 % or greater
human milk) and partial
human milk consumption (79 % or less
human milk) were also constructed based
on a standard international classification of
human milk feedings.16 Formula
feeding was defined as exclusive formula
feeding.
This presentation aims to focus mainly
on the benefits deriving from the use of donor
human milk in
feeding preterm infants:
The health risks associated with formula
feeding for premature infants include increased incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, 5 delayed brainstem maturation, 6 decreased scoring
on cognitive and developmental tests,7 - 10 and decreased visual development.11, 12 Thus,
human -
milk feeding of premature infants is desirable, and effective strategies to increase breastfeeding rates in this population are needed.
Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are
human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the
milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the
milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions
on a breast (infant may
feed from other breast if clear of lesions).
The amount of fat in
human milk changes dramatically during each
feeding and throughout the day, since fat content depends
on the degree of emptyness of the breast (empty breast = high fat, full breast = low fat).
Pediatricians and other health care professionals should recommend
human milk for all infants in whom breastfeeding is not specifically contraindicated and provide parents with complete, current information
on the benefits and techniques of breastfeeding to ensure that their
feeding decision is a fully informed one.147 — 149
To expand
on Ms. Nelson's point, female
humans are mammals which means they have mammaries — oh wait, that's where the word mammal comes from — in order to produce
milk to
feed their babies.
Guidelines for infant formulas and normal infant
feeding based
on human breast
milk are available from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
It includes sections
on handling
human milk, educating mothers, hygiene,
feeding human milk in the NICU, storage times, donor
milk usage in the hospital and what to do when
milk is
fed to the wrong infant.
A recent study has reported an association between dietary long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development in infants.32 It has been suggested that these fatty acids can be an explanation for the beneficial effect of nutrition with
human milk on mental development of the child.33 34 This may be a plausible biological explanation of the correlation between breast
feeding and mental development.
Breastfeeding: best start for all babies Babies
fed on human milk seem to get less diarrhoea than those
fed on breastmilk substitutes.
Many Women Quit Breast -
Feeding Early Insufficient maternity leave poses a significant barrier, experts say December 27, 2009 Though a growing percentage of American moms start their infants on human milk, relatively few continue breast - feeding for the baby's first six months of life, let alone an entir
Feeding Early Insufficient maternity leave poses a significant barrier, experts say December 27, 2009 Though a growing percentage of American moms start their infants
on human milk, relatively few continue breast -
feeding for the baby's first six months of life, let alone an entir
feeding for the baby's first six months of life, let alone an entire year.
In 2007, researchers reported in the journal Early
Human Development that children who had received no DHA in formula or breast
milk during the first 17 weeks of life had poorer visual acuity at age 4, and did worse
on language tests showing verbal IQ, than those who
fed breast
milk.
Lactoferrin A
human -
milk protein that binds iron, helps the body fight Shigella, Salmonella, E. coli, and other microbes that
feed on iron.
In the distant past,
humans, like all other mammals today, only produced lactase as young
feeding on their mothers»
milk; adults were lactose intolerant.
Dr. Wald: Not unlike breast
milk that could contain toxins, food allergens and other adverse substances that may pass into the breast -
feeding infant,
milk used to make yogurt could pass
on undesirable substances to
humans.