The Australian: Breastfeeding 'reduces SIDS risk' [April 29, 2004]: "Breastfeeding 'reduces SIDS risk'
By Louise Perry
April 29, 2004
AFTER years of debate Melbourne researchers have come closer to proving breastfeeding reduces a baby's chances of dying from SIDS.
A baby's difficulty in waking up is thought to be one of the main factors in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
The Monash University researchers found two to three-month-old babies who were breastfed woke up more easily than babies of the same age who were fed with formula.
The research, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, studied 43 healthy babies who had been breastfed or formula fed, and looked at how readily they woke from their two basic sleep states - quiet sleep and active sleep. Active sleep is a deep sleep when dreaming occurs and usually kicks in towards the morning, which is when babies normally succumb to SIDS."
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
High-tech hospitals fail babies - BreakingNews - http://www.theage.com.au:
April 27, 2004 - 6:05PM
"High-tech western hospitals were failing premature babies by making it difficult for mothers to breastfeed, a breastfeeding medicine expert said. Professor Jane Morton is one of the world's first directors of a department of Breastfeeding Medicine, at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California. Speaking from the United States ahead of a visit to Australia to speak to breastfeeding advocates, Prof Morton said her position should exist at all big universities and hospitals...."
'Over the last 10 years or so the research that shows the benefits of breastmilk and the risks of formula, particularly for pre-term babies, is stronger,' Prof Morton said."
April 27, 2004 - 6:05PM
"High-tech western hospitals were failing premature babies by making it difficult for mothers to breastfeed, a breastfeeding medicine expert said. Professor Jane Morton is one of the world's first directors of a department of Breastfeeding Medicine, at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California. Speaking from the United States ahead of a visit to Australia to speak to breastfeeding advocates, Prof Morton said her position should exist at all big universities and hospitals...."
'Over the last 10 years or so the research that shows the benefits of breastmilk and the risks of formula, particularly for pre-term babies, is stronger,' Prof Morton said."
Monday, April 26, 2004
saStar Telegram | 04/20/2004 | Donated mothers' milk helps sick babies thrive: "Posted on Tue, Apr. 20, 2004
By Jan Jarvis
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
"When William Daley was born prematurely on March 8, he weighed only 2 pounds 6 ounces.
He turned 6 weeks old Monday, and little William is getting bigger by the day, thanks in part to breast milk donated by a stranger because his mother could not produce it.'We're absolutely thrilled and blessed to have this option for our son,' said his mother, Carol Daley of Arlington. 'We're very thankful that women are willing to do this....The Fort Worth Milk Bank -- a consortium involving Cook Children's Medical Center, Harris Methodist Fort Worth hospital and Baylor All Saints Medical Center-- will be located in the Child Study Center. The bank, which is in the final stages of becoming a nonprofit organization, has collection sites in Bedford and Plano.'" [A second milk bank in Texas, yay! - JC]
By Jan Jarvis
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
"When William Daley was born prematurely on March 8, he weighed only 2 pounds 6 ounces.
He turned 6 weeks old Monday, and little William is getting bigger by the day, thanks in part to breast milk donated by a stranger because his mother could not produce it.'We're absolutely thrilled and blessed to have this option for our son,' said his mother, Carol Daley of Arlington. 'We're very thankful that women are willing to do this....The Fort Worth Milk Bank -- a consortium involving Cook Children's Medical Center, Harris Methodist Fort Worth hospital and Baylor All Saints Medical Center-- will be located in the Child Study Center. The bank, which is in the final stages of becoming a nonprofit organization, has collection sites in Bedford and Plano.'" [A second milk bank in Texas, yay! - JC]
No evidence that breastfeeding makes maternal HIV worse
"26 April 2004
Michael Carter
AIDSMAP.com
"Breastfeeding is not detrimental to the health of HIV-positive mothers, according to a study published in the April 30th edition of AIDS. Investigators in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, conducted a prospective cohort study involving 698 HIV-positive mothers between 1995 and 1997. The study was undertaken because earlier studies had produced conflicting evidence about the risk of maternal HIV disease progression after breastfeeding..."
"26 April 2004
Michael Carter
AIDSMAP.com
"Breastfeeding is not detrimental to the health of HIV-positive mothers, according to a study published in the April 30th edition of AIDS. Investigators in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, conducted a prospective cohort study involving 698 HIV-positive mothers between 1995 and 1997. The study was undertaken because earlier studies had produced conflicting evidence about the risk of maternal HIV disease progression after breastfeeding..."
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