Diet the key to helping babies' colic woes: study - theage.com.au
March 27 2003
By Lucy Beaumont
"...Breastfeeding mothers can reduce their babies' colic by adopting a low-allergy diet, a Melbourne study has found.
The study of 90 babies by the Royal Children's Hospital confirms earlier findings that many babies younger than six weeks have an intolerance to allergenic proteins ingested by the mother and excreted in the breast milk.
The director of the department of allergy, David Hill, said 70 per cent of the babies with mothers on the low-allergy diet cried at least 25 per cent less within a week.
"Our data suggests that the problem is initially one of immunological immaturity," Dr Hill said. "What the mother eats comes out in her breast milk."..."
Thursday, March 27, 2003
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
icWales - Pre-birth decisions `affect feeding'
Mar 22 2003
Catrin.Williams@Wme.Co.Uk Catrin Williams, The Western Mail - The National Newspaper Of Wales
A WOMAN who makes up her mind to breastfeed before her baby is born will almost always succeed.
Latest research shows
96.6% of women who planned to breastfeed for at least four months managed to start breastfeeding. But of women who intended to bottle-feed before birth, only 3.4% started to breastfeed.
"There is mounting evidence of the health benefits of breast-feeding, but many women never attempt it," said Dr Lisa Amir, from the Australian Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, yesterday.
"A good deal of research has pinpointed factors which may be associated with this, for example, older mothers, non-smokers and those with higher levels of education and income are more likely to breast-feed.
Mar 22 2003
Catrin.Williams@Wme.Co.Uk Catrin Williams, The Western Mail - The National Newspaper Of Wales
A WOMAN who makes up her mind to breastfeed before her baby is born will almost always succeed.
Latest research shows
96.6% of women who planned to breastfeed for at least four months managed to start breastfeeding. But of women who intended to bottle-feed before birth, only 3.4% started to breastfeed.
"There is mounting evidence of the health benefits of breast-feeding, but many women never attempt it," said Dr Lisa Amir, from the Australian Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, yesterday.
"A good deal of research has pinpointed factors which may be associated with this, for example, older mothers, non-smokers and those with higher levels of education and income are more likely to breast-feed.
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Nonprofit milk bank helps premature and ill infants
Thursday, March 20, 2003
By Nina Garin
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
Daily Breeze
"Life inside Lucie Nicole’s incubator is pink and rosy. She has a soft blanket, a bright name tag and plenty of mother’s milk to nourish her tiny body. But the milk that Lucie drinks doesn’t come from her own mother. Because the 2-pound, 7-ounce Lucie was born three months early, her mother wasn’t able to produce any breast milk — a key ingredient in helping the development of premature babies. So the people at the Mothers’ Milk Depot of Southern California stepped in. The Mothers’ Milk Depot is a nonprofit organization based in San Jose that collects breast milk for babies such as Lucie, who normally wouldn’t be able to receive any. “Human milk is liquid gold for preterm infants,” says Dr. Nancy E. Wight, a neonatologist at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women in San Diego. “It provides nutrition, digestive enzymes, growth factors and hormones.”"
Thursday, March 20, 2003
By Nina Garin
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
Daily Breeze
"Life inside Lucie Nicole’s incubator is pink and rosy. She has a soft blanket, a bright name tag and plenty of mother’s milk to nourish her tiny body. But the milk that Lucie drinks doesn’t come from her own mother. Because the 2-pound, 7-ounce Lucie was born three months early, her mother wasn’t able to produce any breast milk — a key ingredient in helping the development of premature babies. So the people at the Mothers’ Milk Depot of Southern California stepped in. The Mothers’ Milk Depot is a nonprofit organization based in San Jose that collects breast milk for babies such as Lucie, who normally wouldn’t be able to receive any. “Human milk is liquid gold for preterm infants,” says Dr. Nancy E. Wight, a neonatologist at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women in San Diego. “It provides nutrition, digestive enzymes, growth factors and hormones.”"
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Couple absolved over baby son's death - theage.com.au
March 20 2003
By Lee Glendinning
"The NSW Coroner has absolved parents of a five-day-old baby found dead in his cot of any wrongdoing, clearing them of allegations the child died of a methadone overdose. Baby Ewen died of natural causes, probably a congenital heart defect, and not from the effects of methadone, Glebe Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Coroner John Abernethy used his findings to launch into a defence of the Department of Community Services, which he said was too often blamed in these cases. He also cleared Bankstown Hospital and medical staff of any involvement in the child's death. Central to the inquest was whether Ewen had died from a methadone overdose from his mother's breast milk, or if he was given the drug by someone in the house."
March 20 2003
By Lee Glendinning
"The NSW Coroner has absolved parents of a five-day-old baby found dead in his cot of any wrongdoing, clearing them of allegations the child died of a methadone overdose. Baby Ewen died of natural causes, probably a congenital heart defect, and not from the effects of methadone, Glebe Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Coroner John Abernethy used his findings to launch into a defence of the Department of Community Services, which he said was too often blamed in these cases. He also cleared Bankstown Hospital and medical staff of any involvement in the child's death. Central to the inquest was whether Ewen had died from a methadone overdose from his mother's breast milk, or if he was given the drug by someone in the house."
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