Editor: Weight changes during breastfeeding are very variable in healthy populations with reported changes during 6 months of lactation between a mean loss of 0.9 kg/month and a mean gain of 0.8 kg/month.1 Breastfeeding increases the nutrient needs of women, although metabolic adaptions generally...
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It has been almost two years since I last lived on the farm, Moose was my friend, a large brown Swiss cow of great beauty, she taught me so many things about love, about nursing a baby and being connected to the land, and the seasons and the power of presence and communicating withou...
When pooling the risk estimates, we regraded the shortest breastfeeding duration as the reference group (non/occasional breastfeeding), i.e., some defined never and some defined less than 1 month, 2 months, or 6 months. In the analysis of breastfeeding versus non/occasional breast...
was less than 3 months. Rates of infection detectable by 6 weeks were the same across the three groups. This is to be expected because this describes intrauterine orintrapartuminfection and would not be expected to differ by postnatal feeding practices. After 6 weeks, there were essentially no ...
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Her colostrum methadone level was 77 mcg/L on the day of delivery and milk levels remained fairly constant (range 77 to 123 mcg/L) throughout the study period. There was little difference in milk levels before and after feeding. Peak milk levels occurred 4 to 6 hours after a dose.[26]...
Six of 7 infants had detectable serum levels in the first month, 6 of 8 in the second month and 2 of 14 thereafter. The ratio of infant to maternal serum levels of fluoxetine plus S-norfluoxetine dropped rapidly during the first month and was less than 10% by 2 months of age. Infant...
, and (2) Do preterm infants supplemented by cup during hospital- ization demonstrate more mature breastfeeding behavior at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 weeks after discharge when compared to preterm infants supplemented by bottle? Cup feeding is known as an alternative method of feeding breast ...
The uterine involution after childbirth is reported to involve both mechanisms of apoptosis and proliferation, with an ultimate effect of remodeling of the existing tissues22. Apoptosis occurring during uterine involution could lead to selective loss of early neoplastic lesions23,24 and therefore, to a...