Not exact matches
In fact, breastfeeding reduces the
impact of the metabolic and hormonal changes following
birth for all mothers and all
babies benefit
from breastfeeding.
Kroeger, Mary, Linda J Smith
IMPACT OF BIRTHING PRACTICES ON BREASTFEEDING: Protecting the Mother and
Baby Continuum Jones and Bartlett, 2004 This book examines the bond between human mothers and their newborns
from the perspective of labor,
birth and breastfeeding.
Prematurity - related problems that might
impact breastfeeding include an underdeveloped suck reflex; increased sleepiness; low
birth weight / small size; a higher risk of jaundice, hypoglycemia, and difficulty maintaining body temperature; and anything else that requires separation of
babies from their mother or supplementation.
The book examines: - why the research shows so little benefit for physiologic care and so little harm
from medical - model management - what's behind the cesarean epidemic - what the research establishes as optimal care for initiating labor, facilitating labor progress, guarding maternal and fetal safety, birthing the
baby, and promoting safety for mother and
baby after the
birth - the true, quantified risks of primary cesarean surgery, planned VBAC versus elective repeat cesarean, instrumental vaginal delivery, and regional analgesia - how the organization of the maternity care system adversely
impacts care outcomes
Righard and Frantz (1990) observed that drugs used during labor do
impact breastfeeding, and that moms who are not separated
from their
babies after
birth have significantly better success with the initiation of breastfeeding.
A recent study
from the Thai - Myanmar border highlights the severe and previously under - reported adverse
impact of readily treatable tropical rickettsial illnesses, notably scrub typhus and murine typhus, on pregnancy outcomes, finding that more than one third of affected pregnancies resulted either in stillbirth or premature and / or low
birth weight
babies.
Antibiotics are the usual treatment, but as more information emerges on the importance of gut bacteria and how
baby inherits it
from mom, antibiotics can have a much longer
impact than just during the
birth and days after.