Sentences with phrase «infant suckling»

Another consideration regarding higher BMI and lactation is the possible reduced effect of infant suckling on prolactin levels in the early days postpartum.

Instead, Geddes and her colleagues combined ultrasound imaging of infants suckling on the breast with measurements of the strength of the vacuum created by the baby's mouth in 20 infants aged 3 to 24 weeks as they breastfed (see video).

After a lifetime of having your breasts mean sex and attracting men, when you suddenly have an infant suckling it may come off a little icky.

We are all familiar with the image of a large - bosomed lady exposing her full breast to all and sundry as her infant suckles.

And most people understand that an infant suckling at a mother's breast is natural (though far too many people are uncomfortable with actually seeing a mother breastfeed!).

Studies show that this effect is greater when the infant suckles more frequently and is exclusively breastfed.

The same principle applies to relactation as to induced lactation: both are initiated and maintained by an infant suckling frequently at the breast.

Even if an infant suckles only a little to start with, often the case in babies over three months of age, this will tend to increase after a week.

Acute prolactin and oxytocin responses and milk yield to infant suckling and artificial methods of expression in lactating women Pediatrics 1992; 89 (3): 437 — 40.

Based on the most current evidence base for practice, it includes four new chapters: * Normal Infant Behavior * Change Management * Developing and Managing a Hospital Lactation Service * Nutrition for the Breastfeeding Child New to this edition are figures of breast anatomy and infant suckling and sections on mentoring future lactation consultants, protecting against chronic disease for the lactating mother, and breastfeeding late preterm infants.

The theory is that infants suckle their mother's nipple differently than they do a bottle or pacifier, and may have difficulty latching on to the mother if they're given too much exposure to artificial nipples.

In contrast, a handful of scenes — Schneemann receiving morning kisses from her cat, solarized imagery of an infant suckling a nipple, a mouth slurping up noodles — are so astonishingly oral and sensuous that the body's responsive signals become jammed in shock.