Exclusive breastfeeding fulfills energy requirements for first six months A study was undertaken in Glasgow, Scotland to establish whether and how human lactation and breastfeeding practices can adapt to fulfill infant energy requirements during exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months.
Effect of Kangaroo Mother Care on physical growth, breastfeeding and its acceptability The aim of this study was to determine whether the implementation of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) to low birth weight infants would improve breastfeeding, physical growth and its acceptability.
Northern Ireland study demonstrates increased height amongst breastfed babies A longitudinal study in Northern Ireland was conducted with one aim being to establish the association between breastfeeding and blood pressure
Early weighing and neonatal hypernatraemia, Iyer 2008 Ineffective breastfeeding, leading to excessive weight loss and raised sodium levels – with or without jaundice (hypernatraemic dehydration – NHD) – is a health risk for babies
Breastfeeding method and infant weight gain An article published this week in Archives of Diseases in Childhood has received some interest in the national press.
Field testing of the 2006 WHO growth charts, Nash 2008 The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a series of standard growth charts which was a first attempt at describing how children should grow in an ideal environment.
Benefits of breastmilk for VLBW babies, Vohr 2007 Researchers have been following the wellbeing of a large group of very low birth weight babies who were cared for in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) and have recently reported findings at 30 months of age.
Weight charts – do they influence breastfeeding behaviour and the introduction of supplementary feeds? Evidence of how weight charts are interpreted and used in practice has been limited and therefore a study using an ethnographic approach was conducted to investigate this issue.
Ineffective sucking most likely cause of faltering growth A total of 11,900 infants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPACA), born at 37–41 weeks’ gestation, without major malformations were studied.
Breastfeeding associated with a lower risk of being overweight at 7 years After adjustment for confounders, children breastfed for >16 weeks were found to have a lower BMI at 1 year of age than children who were not breastfed.
