Sentences with phrase «which human infants»

The lighter sleep, that all of these maternal - induced arousals promote, gives rise to what we consider to be «safer sleep» for infants especially for the level of neurological immaturity through which all human infants must pass.

In other words, the mother's body is the only environment to which the human infant is adapted.

Not exact matches

It has allowed us to understand sanitation which has increased human health and life extending the average life span while increasing infant mortality rates.

A human sex cell was imagined to contain a miniature homunculus, which increases in size until it becomes an embryo, an infant, and eventually an adult woman or man.

In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

There are luminous moments in beholding a very young infant in which one is aware of an absolute, timeless, pervasive peace which stems in part from a consciousness that, at least for a very short while, it is within one's power to meet every need of another human being.

This is important because it makes it clear that the family, or basic human community, in which the newly born infant learns to take the first steps in faith and hope, is itself created by love and should continue to be a community visibly demonstrating love.

The gaping chasm between God and human beings — which human reason has perceived and before which it has trembled — has been bridged by this infant's merest yawn.

Infant formula is the only processed food which humans are encouraged to consume, several times a day during a critical period of growth and development.

The best nutrition for the newly born infant is human milk, which contains all the nutrients the infant needs to be protected to all sort of infections...

I did, however, find some related information on The Natural Child Project: Throughout human history, breast - feeding mothers sleeping alongside their infants constituted a marvelously adaptive system in which both the mothers» and infants» sleep physiology and health were connected in beneficial ways.

As to children being spoiled by AP... that would mean that children were spoiled and bratty through most of human history since AP (not permissive or helicopter parenting, which is very, very different) is reflective of the methods previously used to nurture infants and young children.

Over the years scientists have identified a number of anti-infective substances in human milk that may help fight respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, and such devastating conditions as acute inflammation of the intestines and colon, to which premature infants are particularly vulnerable.

This is due to the high levels of lactose and vitamin C in human milk, which aid in the absorption of iron, and 3) breastfed babies do not lose iron through their bowels as do formula - fed infants, whose intestines develop fissures from damage caused by cow's milk.

Moreover, the prematurity of the infant gut meant it had to be fed frequently with human milk which was low in fat and protein.

Infants and children sleeping in isolation is a recently devised cultural practice to which the human species is not adapted.

Numerous studies have shown the benefits of providing human milk to newborn babies and young infants, which include better tolerance of feeding, reduced gastrointestinal disease, and improved intelligence.

NOTE on BASIC ASSUMPTIONS: When I write about parenting, I assume the importance of the evolved developmental niche (EDN) for raising human infants (which initially arose over 30 million years ago with the emergence of the social mammals and has been slightly altered among human groups based on anthropological research).

This too is a distortion of WHO recommendations, which state that the best alternatives to breastfeeding are expressed milk from the infant's mother, breastmilk from a wetnurse, and thirdly breastmilk from a human milk bank.

There is also a great PDF attached here which summarises the benefits of human touch for infants.

In contrast the mammals pictured all gestate to a point where their offspring are far less vulnerable and far more capable of survival... roughly akin to circa 9 - 18 mths of human infant development (which, even then, is a wide range itself).

Recall that breastfed infants wake up much more frequently and at shorter intervals than do bottle fed infants since cows milk is designed for cow brain growth (much less volume compared with human brains) and body growth rates while breast milk has just the right composition which means fast burning sugars and much less protein and fat... for that ever - growing human infant brain which triples in size in the first year.

Indeed, I argue that the cultural dismantling of the three basic components of normal human infant sleep i.e. sleep position (on the back for breastfeeding which was changed to prone sleep), feeding method (from breastfeeding to formula or cows milk, bottle feeding) and infant sleep location (from next to the mother within sensory range to nighttime separation, a separate room) fostered and promoted the SIDS epidemic which is was limited to the industrialized, western world.

This represents a uniquely human characteristic that could only develop biologically alongside mother's continuous contact and proximity — as mother's body proves still to be the only environment to which the infant is truly adapted, for which even modern western technology has yet to produce a substitute.

Indeed, the human infant's physiology is not designed to function optimally outside the context by which usually the breastfeeding mother can compensate for the infants developmental (neurological) vulnerabilities.

There is, however, no evidence of adverse effects from this mild jaundice.12 In fact, jaundice, which is present in almost all human infants to some extent, and which is often prolonged by breastfeeding, may be beneficial because of its powerful anti-oxidant properties.19 20

Unfortunately this implies that the pediatric sleep research community (in general) accepts uncritically the mistaken assumption that solitary, bottle - fed infants represent the «normal» and / or «optimal» human infant sleep and feeding arrangement, and the context from which measurements of «normal, infant sleep» can be derived.

Like human taste buds which reward us for eating what's overwhelmingly critical for survival i.e. fats and sugars, a consideration of human infant and parental biology and psychology reveal the existence of powerful physiological and social factors that promote maternal motivations to cosleep and explain parental needs to touch and sleep close to baby.

In Our Babies, Ourselves, Small writes not just as an anthropologist, wanting to observe and record human behavior and how it relates to our biological and evolutionary roots as mammals, but also from an ethnopediatrics perspective, which seeks to advise us as parents how to integrate babies» innate needs with our culture in an infant - appropriate way.

Tragically, these culturally based practices led to the deaths of possibly as many as 600 thousand infants from SIDS, in part because our society promoted a kind of premature deep, uninterrupted sleep, in sensory - deprived (solitary) environments for which the naturally vulnerable and neurologically immature human infant was not and is not, biologically prepared.

While strolling on the Bund, I quit a younger vacationer called Yang Yang which was actually lugging her small, fox - like dog in a sling on her breast, the technique I usually carry my human infant.

HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the viral infection which destroys parts of the body's immune system HIV - exposed infant: Infant born to an HIV - positive infant: Infant born to an HIV - positive Infant born to an HIV - positive woman.

The only infant variable that differed significantly between the two groups was mean birth weight, which was higher by 73 g in the human milk - fed group (Table 1).

There are unique considerations regarding the needs of infants during the first three years of life which are highlighted by contemporary knowledge, underscoring the impact of early experience on the development of human infant brain and mind»

Although multi-functional, other proteins in human milk, including secretory IgA, lactoferrin and lysozyme — and macrophages and free fatty acids — act as anti-infective agents, which are essential for the preterm infant.

Plans to run these blunt ads infuriated the politically powerful infant formula industry, which hired a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a former top regulatory official to lobby the Health and Human Services Department.

As a Prolacta Bioscience affiliated milk bank, we collect breast milk from qualified, donors which is then used by Prolacta to make the only available breast milk - based fortifier from 100 % human milk (rather than cow milk) for critically ill, premature infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).

Their report, which was based on in vitro tests comparing the digestion of fresh human breast milk and nine different infant formulas, was published online in the journal Pediatric Research.

The guidelines should also lay down clearly the order in which infants may receive milk from human milk banks to ensure that newborns who are critically ill or preterm babies are on top of the list.

Infant formulas can not mimic the array of protective properties of breast milk, which fits the infant both species-wise (eg, human milk vs cow milk) and individually owing to the dyadic connection between a mother and herInfant formulas can not mimic the array of protective properties of breast milk, which fits the infant both species-wise (eg, human milk vs cow milk) and individually owing to the dyadic connection between a mother and herinfant both species-wise (eg, human milk vs cow milk) and individually owing to the dyadic connection between a mother and her baby.

Colostrum contains high concentrations of secretory IgA, the predominant immunoglobulin passed through your breast milk, lactoferrin, which acts as an antibacterial to prevent infection in human infants, and leukocytes, protective white cells.

Human milk is a bodily fluid which, apart from being an excellent nutritional source for the growing infant, also contains a variety of immune components such as antibodies, growth factors, cytokines, antimicrobial compounds, and specific immune cells [9].

This mismatch between human infant biological needs and contemporary caregiving practices or contexts may be particularly heightened in western industrialized cultures within which sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and / or sudden unexpected infant death in infancy (SUID) are both more salient and prevalent.1, 2

10 There is no animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur naturally in any species other than humans.2 While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12

«That coincided with the pelvis narrowing, to allow walking upright, which limited the size of the infant at time of birth — all humans are born in a certain state of prematurity.

4 Fortunately, the human voice box doesn't drop until about 9 months, which allows infants to breathe while nursing.

The Duke medical researchers and ecologists who have joined that project hope to identify which species flourish in early stages of the human microbiome, how they are influenced by the consumption of breast milk, and what role they play in critical diseases affecting infants as well as in chronic diseases that occur later in life.

«It provides a unique vantage point from which to consider the intricate interface between capacities inherent in the human infant and the shaping force of experience,» said Sandra Waxman, senior author of the study, director of the Project on Child Development, faculty fellow in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology at Northwestern.

From the moment of birth humans possess the capacity to make distinctions between speakers of their native language and others, which helps understand how infants and young children are tuned to quickly acquire the knowledge of their society and adopt to their cultural environment,» said Dr. Marno.

«This work significantly advances our efforts to decipher how human milk amazingly orchestrates colonization of the infant gut by helpful bacteria, which then protects and guides intestinal development in the early stages of life.