Sentences with phrase «other health benefits of breastfeeding»

«While you might not be able to maintain a full supply while only breastfeeding at home, breastfeeding even part time is giving your son a lot of the immunological and other health benefits of breastfeeding,» she notes.

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Various studies also show that early introduction of other foods also lowers the total duration of breastfeeding (and thus its health benefits).

Short term I will be losing money by not going back to work for 6 months, but I am invested in the health and other benefits of breastfeeding (including those with longer - term payoffs).

Longer duration of breastfeeding may or may not affect the appearance of your breasts, but it will reduce the risk for breast cancer over your lifetime, in addition to the many other health benefits to you and to your breastfed baby.

«It's just a reality check that in itself, promoting breastfeeding, while a good thing and will have other health benefits, is unlikely to have any effects on stemming the obesity epidemic,» said the study's lead author, Richard Martin, from the University of Bristol, UK.

4) Not only does breastfeeding offer health benefits while a child is actively being nursed, but studies show that it also provides long - term health benefits such as reduced chances of asthma, childhood leukemia, diabetes, gastroenteritis, otitis media (ear infections), LRTIs (pneumonia, bronchitis, etc), necrotizing enterocolitis, obesity, and other potentially life - altering or fatal conditions.

Personally, I find it interesting that the same people who are so fixated on the modest health benefits of breastfeeding also tend to endorse other things that the evidence shows to be much more unsafe than formula feeding.

• Helping mothers develop skills and techniques to ensure breastfeeding goes well • Providing expertise in the management of breastfeeding challenges • Training other healthcare workers using current evidence based knowledge • Collaborating with other healthcare workers to meet the family's needs • Investigating and participating in research • Educating policy makers on the economic and health benefits of breastfeeding • Advocating for services to support breastfeeding

But, the American Academy of Pediatrics and other breastfeeding advocates fought for the proposal, citing the many long - lasting health benefits of breast milk.

BFHI has been shown to be very effective in increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in many countries, as well as improving mother's health care experiences and reducing rates of infant abandonment.12 Given the short and long - term benefits of breastfeeding to the infant, mother and society, implementing BFHI — alongside with the other objectives stated in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding - continues to have an important role to play in health services worldwide.

«It's just a reality check that in itself, promoting breastfeeding, while a good thing that will have other health benefits, is unlikely to have any effects on stemming the obesity epidemic,» said lead author Richard Martin, from the University of Bristol, UK.

The offices of obstetrician — gynecologists and other obstetric care providers should be a resource for breastfeeding assistance through the first year of life, and for those women who continue to breastfeed beyond the first year because many of the health benefits associated with breastfeeding increase with longer duration of breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding is also likely to lead to improvements in IQ, reduce rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and reduce obesity in young children, and there is growing evidence that it confers a number of other health and development benefits on the child and health benefits on the mother (Renfrew 2012a, Victora 2016).

you will have a healthier baby, a healthier planet and a healthier you (along with other health benefits, breastfeeding can significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer)!

Because the primary goal of public health is prevention of morbidity, health care professionals should be taught the potential health benefits of breastfeeding and given tools to assist mothers with breastfeeding, whether themselves or with referrals to others who can help.

While we continue to see low breastfeeding rates in the United States when compared to most other parts of the world, the research on the benefits of breast milk is rock - solid — there is simply no adequate substitute for breast milk when it comes to protecting the health of your baby.

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

These findings add to a growing body of evidence that has suggested breastfeeding may have multiple health and other benefits for children.12 28 The particular significance of the present findings is that they show the cognitive benefits that are associated with breastfeeding are unlikely to be short - lived and appear to persist until at least young adulthood.

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The biopsychosocial benefits of breastfeeding are widely discussed within the academic literature, within health promotion materials and within other literature directly aimed at pregnant and nursing women (Britton, 1998).

Fortunately breastfeeding has still come easily and I'm determined to make the most of the health benefits for both my children and myself, especially after my other breast tried to kill me!!

Mountford added that while the IFC «agrees with the American Academy of Pediatrics and other health care professional organisations that breastfeeding is ideal and offers specific infant and maternal health benefits,» it believes parents can be trusted to make their own decisions.

Although breastfeeding has modest effects on blood pressure (51) and adiposity (52, 53) in later life, it has numerous other health benefits, including protection against infectious disease morbidity (54) and mortality (55) in infancy and a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (56) and improved neural and psychosocial development in the longer term (57, 58).

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«There have been studies into the benefits of breastfeeding on other diseases, but there is little information about benefits of breastfeeding linked to liver disease,» explained lead investigator Oyekoya T. Ayonrinde, MBBS, of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, and Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.

Women who breastfeed have a reduced risk for developing osteoporosis, breast and ovarian cancers and type 2 diabetes, among other health benefits... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently advising mothers to protect infants against the swine flu outbreak by breastfeeding and states that one of the «best things» mothers can do for babies who become ill is to continue to breastfeed.

Fact: Breastfeeding directly from the breast offers significant benefits over bottlefeeding expressed breastmilk for both mother and infant, including, among others: infant jaw development, infant control of milk flow, psychological attachment of infant to mother, health benefits for mother that pumping the breast does not achieve, infant's ability to feed on demand, the stimulation and maintenance of mother» smilk supply that pumping alone can not achieve (and some women can not successfully pump), avoidance of problems such as that some babies will not move back and forth easily between bottle and breast, nutritional variation of milk during the breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the breast is always fresh and free of Breastfeeding directly from the breast offers significant benefits over bottlefeeding expressed breastmilk for both mother and infant, including, among others: infant jaw development, infant control of milk flow, psychological attachment of infant to mother, health benefits for mother that pumping the breast does not achieve, infant's ability to feed on demand, the stimulation and maintenance of mother» smilk supply that pumping alone can not achieve (and some women can not successfully pump), avoidance of problems such as that some babies will not move back and forth easily between bottle and breast, nutritional variation of milk during the breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the breast is always fresh and free of breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the breast is always fresh and free of contaminents.