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Family Wellness First
The E-newsletter for Parents to make Informed Health Care Choices
Three more reasons why breast is best!
Breastfeeding
may result in less stress for moms:
Moms, want to lower stress? Try breastfeeding. New research from the Douglas
Hospital Research Centre in Montreal shows mothers who breastfeed respond less
to stressful situations than those who bottle-feed their children. These findings
suggest these mothers may be better able to care for their children.
"It has been well established that breast milk is the best source of
nutrition for infants - it is beneficial to their physical and mental development," says
Claire-Dominique Walker, Ph.D., senior investigator and director of the Neuroscience
Research Division at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre. "Our work now
shows that there is a reciprocal benefit of breastfeeding to the mothers -
they react less to stressful situations. This means they will focus more on
their children and have more energy for activities such as attending to their
infants and producing milk - this is an obvious gain for the children."
Read the entire article here:
Breastfeeding and intelligence of preschool children
A recent study performed at the University
of Auckland examined the effects of breastfeeding and its effects on the intelligence
of preschool children
who were born small for gestational age. In the small for gestational age group,
breastfeeding was significantly associated with higher intelligence. Longer
durations of breastfeeding
were associated with higher mean intelligence test scores.
Breast Milk is Alive?
Human milk is alive with beneficial bacteria that aid an infant's digestion
and help prevent diarrhea (a frequent cause of death in developing countries)
and with immunoglobulins that protect infants from disease. In one study
a group of infants fed artificial milk had $68,000 in medical care costs
in a six-month period while an equal number of nursing babies had only $4,000
worth. In Brazil an artificially-fed baby is 14 times more likely to die
than an exclusively breastfed baby and at least 4 times more likely to die
than an infant receiving both mother's milk and artificial milk. New Beginnings.
May-June 1995.
Read
many more reasons why breastfeeding is best for your baby: http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/children/breastfeeding.htm
Having Difficulty Breastfeeding? Does your baby need to suck continuously?
The Excessive Need to Suck: Getting to the Cause:
Frequently, babies will demonstrate a need to continually suck. This can become exhausting to the breastfeeding mother and she may resort to the use of pacifiers. Frequently, this excessive need is due to cranial and upper neck misalignment in the baby. The continuous sucking action relieves the baby of the discomfort from the misalignment. If your baby seems to have an excessive need to suck, before you resort to a pacifier, visit your family chiropactor to have your baby's spine and cranium checked.
Ability
to breastfeed Improved with chiropractic care: http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/articles/childhood/suck_reflex.htm
Read the research on chiropractic care to eliminate breastfeeding difficulties:
http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/chiropractic/breastfeeding.htm
Find a doctor of chiropractic: http://www.icpa4kids.org/find.htm
Challenging
the use of pacifiers:
Although parents are encouraged to use pacifiers to sooth
their babies, there
are known reasons why their use should be discouraged:
In the
above Aukland study, "Breastfeeding
and intelligence of preschool children" it
was observed that those children offered a pacifier weaned sooner than those
babies who were not given
a pacifier.
Another study shows the negative effects of pacifiers on breasfeeding:
Pacifiers Linked with
Breast Feeding Problems: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11466098&dopt=Abstract
And pacifier use increases
the frequency of ear infections:
Pacifiers Linked With Ear Infection: Niemela
M, Pihakari O, Pokka T, Uhari M Pacifier as a risk factor for acute otitis media:
A randomized, controlled trial of parental counseling Pediatrics 2000 (Sep);
106 (3): 483-488
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