Sentences with phrase «particularly during lactation»

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Our breasts are very tricky, changing size and shape throughout our lives and particularly during pregnancy and lactation.

In pregnancy, greater maternal fish intake (particularly fish low in mercury contamination) is associated with better childhood cognitive outcomes, 7 but the extent to which maternal fish intake during lactation accounts for the relationship between breastfeeding and cognition has not been reported.

Given that a few abundant transcripts dominate the milk fat layer transcriptome during mature lactation, we suspected that microarray technology, in which high abundance transcripts saturate the signal, would be particularly handicapped in this biological context.

Ensuring adequate diets prior to pregnancy, during pregnancy and lactation, and during early childhood (particularly the first two years) is essential.

The study did find, however, that bone density decreased by as much as 4 % (particularly in the lumbar spine, hip and shin) during the first 4 months after childbirth, but only if the lactation period lasted for at least that long.

Careful consideration and understanding should be given to the feeding of breeding bitches before, during and after mating, increasing food intake and quality of food particularly in the latter stages of pregnancy and during lactation (feeding puppies).

The general thinking is that because most young mammals are particularly vulnerable during the developmental period that coincides with lactation, nursing moms are capable of uncharacteristic levels of aggression if that's what it takes to protect their youngins».