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Sheena Reilly, J. Reid, J. Skeat, and The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Clinical Protocol Committee

Breastfeeding Medicine, Volume 2, Number 4, 2007

Background

Babies use both suction and compression to breastfeed successfully. The ability to generate suction is necessary for attachment to the breast, maintenance of a stable feeding position and, together with the let down reflex, milk extraction.

Viviane C. Kanufre, Ana L. P. Starling, Ennio Leão, Marcos J. B. Aguiar, Jacqueline S. Santos, Rosângelis D. L. Soares, Adriana M. Silveira

J Pediatr (Rio J). 2007;83(5)

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the effect of breastmilk as a source of phenylalanine (phe) on levels of this amino acid and on growth in phenylketonuric infants.

Methods: The study recruited 35 breastfed phenylketonuric infants and compared their results with those of 35 infants fed on commercial, milk-based formula. The groups were paired for sex and age at weaning from breastfeeding. Data were analyzed up until cessation of breastmilk or for 12 months’ follow-up. The breastfed group were given a “special formula” free of phe, by bottle every 3 hours, and breastmilk at will during the intervals. Levels of phe in the blood, collected weekly up to 6 months and fortnightly up to 1 year de age, were analyzed while breastfeeding continued. The two groups were compared in terms of the time taken for the levels of phe in blood to return to normal after treatment was started, using the Wilcoxon test. Anthropometric data were compared with Student’s t paired test in the form of z scores. The phe assays were analyzed throughout breastfeeding.

Dani-Louise Bryan, Prue H. Hart, Kevin D. Forsyth, Robert A. Gibson (2007)
Pediatric Allergy and Immunology 18 (6), 495–502

Abstract

Although epidemiological evidence is generally supportive of a causal association between respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis during infancy and the development of persistent wheeze/asthma, if not allergy, the mechanism by which this occurs and an explanation for why all children do not succumb remains to be elucidated. Breast feeding has been found to confer a protective effect against respiratory infections such as RSV bronchiolitis and allergy; however, again there is little direct evidence and no clear mechanism. In this study, we examined whether human milk immunomodulatory factors (cells, cytokines) change in response to clinically diagnosed, severe bronchiolitis in the recipient breast-fed infant.

1.Jennifer Thomas, Kathleen A. Marinelli, Margaret Hennessy, and The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol Committee

Breastfeeding Medicine, Volume 2, Number 2, 2007

Background

The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics, World Health Organization, and other international organizations have recommended that all children should be breastfed, unless there is a medical contraindication. It is particularly important that Down syndrome and other hypotonic children be breastfed, to minimize the risk of morbidities associated with artificial feedings, many of which they are at increased risk from by virtue of their condition.

Spatz, Diane L. PhD, RNC

Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing. 20(1):51-55

Abstract:

Human milk is the preferred form of nutrition for all infants including those born preterm or otherwise ill. However, without the commitment of knowledgeable healthcare providers to ensure success during mother-infant separation, many infants fail to receive their mother's own milk. Care of the mother-infant dyad during infant illness requires vigilant monitoring of the lactation experience and the commitment of healthcare providers to take a family through the step-by-step process needed to ensure positive outcomes related to the use of human milk and breast-feeding for vulnerable infants. The science tells us that human milk is the best form of nutrition for all infants. As practitioners we must be doing everything in our power to make sure the infants we care for are able to receive their mother's own milk.

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Linda Killion Healow, BSN, IBCLC and Rebecca Sliter Hugh, IBCLC
Breastfeeding Abstracts, August 2000, Volume 20, Number 1, pp. 3-4.

Infants are incredibly oral creatures. Not only is the mouth the preferred route of caloric nourishment, but it is also the way newborns most acutely sense and come to know their new environment.