Friday, October 14, 2005
Breaking News: Breastfeeding Is Associated with a Lower Risk of SIDS According to The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
: "Breastfeeding Is Associated with a Lower Risk of SIDS According to The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
10/14/2005 2:26:00 PM EST
Contrary to even the recommendations of its own Section
on Breastfeeding, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released an
ill-advised and ill-informed statement from its Task Force on SIDS (1)
(sudden infant death syndrome). Recommendations that advise against
parent-infant bed-sharing and support the generic use of pacifiers
imply a 'truly astounding triumph of ethnocentric assumptions over
common sense and medical research,' according to Nancy Wight, M.D.,
president of The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. These
controversies, and many more, will be addressed in the upcoming, new
peer-reviewed journal Breastfeeding Medicine (www.liebertpub.com/bfm),
the Official Journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
(www.brmed.org).
Current research from the CDC (2), as well as AAP's existing
policy statement on Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk (3), note
that breastfeeding is associated with a lower risk of SIDS. Since
1992, SIDS has decreased as both co-sleeping and breastfeeding have
increased. Sleeping near one's baby or in the same room has been shown
to reduce the risks of SIDS and more broadly promote maternal and
child health by facilitating breastfeeding. As exclusively breastfed
infants feed frequently through the night, breastfeeding is thought to
reduce SIDS by the same proposed mechanism as supine sleep and
pacifiers, namely less deep sleep and frequent brief awakenings.
Breastfed babies do not need artificial pacifiers to get stimulation
since they already have the protective effect of suckling during the
night."
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Now, Mumbai's babies have a breast milk bank - India News - Webindia123.com
Mumbai October 05, 2005 3:36:15 PM IST
" Realising the significance of a mother's milk for an infant, a Hospital in Mumbai has set up a 'Breast Milk Bank'. It provides the much-needed alternative to many women who are not in a position to lactate, or to secrete milk.Due to various physical conditions or circumstances a mother may not be able to provide her child with the all-important nutrient resulting in the baby's under development and ill health. Considering such desperate situations, the neo-natology department of the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Mumbai started this Milk bank...."
Mumbai October 05, 2005 3:36:15 PM IST
" Realising the significance of a mother's milk for an infant, a Hospital in Mumbai has set up a 'Breast Milk Bank'. It provides the much-needed alternative to many women who are not in a position to lactate, or to secrete milk.Due to various physical conditions or circumstances a mother may not be able to provide her child with the all-important nutrient resulting in the baby's under development and ill health. Considering such desperate situations, the neo-natology department of the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Mumbai started this Milk bank...."
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
- Forbes.comFat Content of Breast Milk Increases with Time
"TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The longer a mother breast-feeds, the higher the fat and energy content of her breast milk.However, experts are not sure what this finding, which appears in the September issue of Pediatrics, signifies...."
"TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The longer a mother breast-feeds, the higher the fat and energy content of her breast milk.However, experts are not sure what this finding, which appears in the September issue of Pediatrics, signifies...."
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Second opinion: Take it to the bank, breast milk is best: "
By ANDRE PICARD
Globe and Mail
Thursday, August 25, 2005 Page A13
Earlier this month, a California company launched the world's first commercial breast-milk bank. Prolacta Bioscience plans to obtain breast milk from lactating mothers around the United States, pasteurize it, and sell it to hospitals for the treatment of low-birth-weight babies. "Human breast milk has 100,000 different components and we only really know what a few thousand of them are and what they do," Elena Medo, chief executive officer of Prolacta, said at the launch of the venture. "It's an enormous area of discovery. I'm sure there's a reason for every one of those components and I'd like to know half of them in my lifetime." Dr. Medo, a scientist and entrepreneur, is saying what mothers have been saying for millenniums: Breast is best. The tragedy of this story is that a company is commercializing breast milk at a time when Canada has virtually abandoned its very successful network of not-for-profit breast-milk banks...
By ANDRE PICARD
Globe and Mail
Thursday, August 25, 2005 Page A13
Earlier this month, a California company launched the world's first commercial breast-milk bank. Prolacta Bioscience plans to obtain breast milk from lactating mothers around the United States, pasteurize it, and sell it to hospitals for the treatment of low-birth-weight babies. "Human breast milk has 100,000 different components and we only really know what a few thousand of them are and what they do," Elena Medo, chief executive officer of Prolacta, said at the launch of the venture. "It's an enormous area of discovery. I'm sure there's a reason for every one of those components and I'd like to know half of them in my lifetime." Dr. Medo, a scientist and entrepreneur, is saying what mothers have been saying for millenniums: Breast is best. The tragedy of this story is that a company is commercializing breast milk at a time when Canada has virtually abandoned its very successful network of not-for-profit breast-milk banks...
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