:: January 2012

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Clinical Guidelines

Management of breastfeeding for pre-term infants

NGC - Breastfeeding and the use of human milk. (2005)

NGC - Breastfeeding best practice guidelines for nurses. (2003)

NGC - Clinical guidelines for the establishment of exclusive breastfeeding. (2005)

NGC - Evidence-based clinical practice guideline. Breastfeeding support: prenatal care through the first year. (2000)

NGC - Guideline on co-sleeping and breastfeeding. (2008)

NGC - Management of breastfeeding for healthy full-term infants. (2002)

Internet Sites

Featured site

NIH - Breast Feeding

NIH - Breastfeeding

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia: Breast milk

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Breastfeeding

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Breastfeeding - resources

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Breastfeeding tips

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Overcoming breastfeeding problems

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia: Breast-feeding mothers - self-care

NIH - Perinatal Transmission (Aids)

NIH - Research on Breastfeeding

Related Topics - Highlighted Articles

Pediatrics: Infant Nutrition

Breastfeeding and the introduction of solids in Australian infants: data from the 2001 National Health Survey. (Aust N Z J Public Health. 2005) RESULTS: At discharge from hospital, 83.3% of infants were breastfeeding, which is similar to estimates from the 1995 NHS. At 13 weeks postpartum, 64.3% were breastfeeding, 49.0% at 25 weeks and 24.9% were continuing to breastfeed at one year. At 25 weeks, 18.4% of infants were fully breastfed. Solid food was being offered regularly to 15.2% of infants at 13 weeks and 88.0% by 26 weeks. CONCLUSION: Fewer than 50% of infants are receiving breast milk at six months, which is considerably lower than the 80% figure recommended by the latest Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents. Very few Australian infants are being exclusively breastfed for the recommended six months."

Contaminants

Effects of breast feeding on neuropsychological development in a community with methylmercury exposure from seafood. (J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol. 2005) "Breastfeeding has been associated with an advantage to infant neurobehavioral development, possibly in part due to essential nutrients in breast milk. However, breast milk may be contaminated by environmental neurotoxicants, such as methylmercury. Ä in this cohort of children with a relatively high prenatal toxicant exposure and potential exposure to neurotoxicants through breast milk, breastfeeding was associated with less benefits on neurobehavioral development than previously published studies though not associated with a deficit in neuropsychological performance at age 7."

In this newsletter:

Breastfeeding
Infant Nutrition

	Breastfeeding
Association of Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration and Fibrinogen Levels in Childhood and Adolescence (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012) “Exclusive BF is associated with less low-grade inflammation, as estimated by serum fibrinogen levels, in healthy children and adolescents. These findings give further support to the notion that early feeding patterns could program cardiovascular disease risk factors later in life.” Exclusive breastfeeding duration and cardiorespiratory fitness in children and adolescents1,2,3 (Am J Clin Nutr 2012) Breastfeeding and Allergy: The Evidence (Ann Nutr Metab. 2011) Sugary drinks tied to breastfed kids' weight “Babies who were breastfed longest and drank few or no sugary beverages were about half as likely to be obese as kids who weren't breastfed or who consumed the most sugary drinks, in a new study of Hispanic children in southern California. The research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is one of the first looks at the combined effects of breastfeeding and how many sugary drinks, like soda and juice drinks, children consume in the first few years of their lives. Past studies have suggested that breastfeeding is linked to a lower risk of obesity in children; however, Jaimie Davis, the study's lead author and a professor at the University of Southern California, said mothers will also give their babies and toddlers sugary drinks. "What happens is that they're breastfeeding and they're often giving their kids juice or Gatorade," said Davis. "They don't realize it's having the counter effect." “

	Infant Nutrition
Cronobacter Illness and Infant Formula Longchain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in infants born at term. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011)