Herald Sun: More new mums go under knife [02jul03]: "More new mums go under knife
By KELLY RYAN and JEN KELLY
02jul03
MORE than one in three Melbourne women have their babies delivered by surgery.
A snapshot of birthing options reveals Francis Perry House in Carlton has the highest percentage of caesarean deliveries each year.
Higher caesarean rates at some birthing centres reflect their specialised care for the growing number of older, first-time mums and IVF babies."
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Food Ingredients First: Nutrition, Ingredients and Foods Online - Newsmaker: "Martek`s DHA and ARA important after breastfeeding- study
Infants receiving the DHA and ARA-supplemented formula demonstrated significantly more mature visual acuity than those infants fed the non- supplemented formula.
30/06/2003 Columbia, Martek Biosciences Corporation commented on the results of a study published in the June 2003 edition of The Journal of Pediatrics. Data from the study demonstrated that infants weaned onto formula supplemented with the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) experienced significantly improved visual development at one year of age compared to infants weaned onto formula not supplemented with DHA and ARA."
Infants receiving the DHA and ARA-supplemented formula demonstrated significantly more mature visual acuity than those infants fed the non- supplemented formula.
30/06/2003 Columbia, Martek Biosciences Corporation commented on the results of a study published in the June 2003 edition of The Journal of Pediatrics. Data from the study demonstrated that infants weaned onto formula supplemented with the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) experienced significantly improved visual development at one year of age compared to infants weaned onto formula not supplemented with DHA and ARA."
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Men can nurture children as well as women can
By CATHERINE SNYDER Tuesday, March 4, 2003
"One of our neighbors gave birth to preemie twins, a boy and girl, in January. We don't know the family well, but one day recently the woman called our house at wits' end: Her husband was working out of state and the twins had been crying for hours. Both babies are underweight and have severe digestive problems. One is too weak to breastfeed and is scheduled for heart surgery.
Could one of us come over to help? Did we have any formula?
My husband, John, took the call and told her he'd be right over. Before he left he asked me - in bed with a cold - where we keep our backup can of formula. "Are you sure you want to do this? I can go," I said, pulling the covers aside.
I surprised myself: Here I was falling back on gender stereotypes, as if a father would be less qualified than a mother to tend to screaming babies. But there it was: "I can go." Sniffle, sneeze.
John urged me to rest and tend to our son, Anthony, and then left with the formula and a pocketful of Mother's Milk tea bags; brewed, these are supposed to stimulate the flow of milk.
I followed half an hour later expecting to have to rescue John and our neighbor from pandemonium. Instead I found a picture of tranquillity: John sitting on a couch in the nursery with the girl fed and sleeping in his arms; the boy propped up beside him making healthy progress on a bottle of milk.
Our neighbor used the time to call the pediatrician, pump more breast milk, use the bathroom and compose herself. She was sleep-deprived, hungry and thirsty. She made many phone calls to friends and neighbors, trying to line up help for later. Some of these calls went to fathers.
As I learned, and as many new parents find out, men are every bit as nurturing as their partners are." [I want neighbours like this! - JC]
By CATHERINE SNYDER Tuesday, March 4, 2003
"One of our neighbors gave birth to preemie twins, a boy and girl, in January. We don't know the family well, but one day recently the woman called our house at wits' end: Her husband was working out of state and the twins had been crying for hours. Both babies are underweight and have severe digestive problems. One is too weak to breastfeed and is scheduled for heart surgery.
Could one of us come over to help? Did we have any formula?
My husband, John, took the call and told her he'd be right over. Before he left he asked me - in bed with a cold - where we keep our backup can of formula. "Are you sure you want to do this? I can go," I said, pulling the covers aside.
I surprised myself: Here I was falling back on gender stereotypes, as if a father would be less qualified than a mother to tend to screaming babies. But there it was: "I can go." Sniffle, sneeze.
John urged me to rest and tend to our son, Anthony, and then left with the formula and a pocketful of Mother's Milk tea bags; brewed, these are supposed to stimulate the flow of milk.
I followed half an hour later expecting to have to rescue John and our neighbor from pandemonium. Instead I found a picture of tranquillity: John sitting on a couch in the nursery with the girl fed and sleeping in his arms; the boy propped up beside him making healthy progress on a bottle of milk.
Our neighbor used the time to call the pediatrician, pump more breast milk, use the bathroom and compose herself. She was sleep-deprived, hungry and thirsty. She made many phone calls to friends and neighbors, trying to line up help for later. Some of these calls went to fathers.
As I learned, and as many new parents find out, men are every bit as nurturing as their partners are." [I want neighbours like this! - JC]
Monday, June 23, 2003
Babies Aren't the Only Beneficiaries of Breast-Feeding: "Babies Aren't the Only Beneficiaries of Breast-Feeding
Carrie Boretz for The New York Times
By LIZ GALST
"Breast is best' "— that is what health care providers and advocates tell mothers who are making decisions about how to feed their newborns.
What is usually meant by that statement is this: compared with bottle feeding, breast-feeding offers incomparable benefits to children, even to those fed that way for a relatively short time. Among the benefits are reduced risks of asthma, lymphoma, sudden infant death syndrome, meningitis, pneumonia, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies, infections, diarrhea and colds. In a majority of studies, breast-fed children have I.Q.'s 3 to 10 points higher than children who are nursed by the bottle. ..."
Carrie Boretz for The New York Times
By LIZ GALST
"Breast is best' "— that is what health care providers and advocates tell mothers who are making decisions about how to feed their newborns.
What is usually meant by that statement is this: compared with bottle feeding, breast-feeding offers incomparable benefits to children, even to those fed that way for a relatively short time. Among the benefits are reduced risks of asthma, lymphoma, sudden infant death syndrome, meningitis, pneumonia, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies, infections, diarrhea and colds. In a majority of studies, breast-fed children have I.Q.'s 3 to 10 points higher than children who are nursed by the bottle. ..."
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