Advance a breastfeeding - friendly model of health care delivery to effectively support exclusive breastfeeding and
the provision of human milk to human babies.
One of the three major classes of immunoglobulin occurring in human colostrum and milk, secretory IgA, has been found in significantly higher concentrations in the milk of mothers of preterm infants compared with milk from mothers of term infants.3Skin - to - skin contact between mothers and preterm infants in this sample may have promoted maternal production of protective antibodies specific to the nosocomial flora of the NICU.9
The provision of human milk may enable preterm, VLBW infants to compensate for their inherently immature immune status.
Not exact matches
The other main issue is that
of interfering with
human milk's immune
provisions, which foreign proteins seem to do as much as iron does.
Although
human milk (HM) is the recommended form
of infant nutrition, the
provision of HM feeding among infants with congenital heart disease in the cardiac...