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here | | | | | | Does the Mother’s Posture Have a Protective Role to Play During Skin-to-Skin Contact?
Skin-to-skin contact during the first hour following birth is the gold standard in breastfeeding. Although consecutive meta-analyses report no adverse effects, a recent review shows an increase in idiopathic sudden unexpected postnatal collapse (SUPC) in healthy term babies identifying three main risk factors: skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding, and baby lying prone. Concurrently, authoritative visual materials tacitly promote maternal supine postures illustrating the breast crawl, a form of birth skin-toskin contact. The naked baby lies on top of his or her mother’s body, in close ventral contact with torso parallel to the floor—a position strongly associated with sudden infant death. Biological nurturing (BN) research, the first to examine maternal postural effects on breastfeeding success, suggests that a semireclined maternal position is optimal for breastfeeding initiation. The maternal body slope ensures that the baby lies tilted, a position known to promote oxygenation. The angle of maternal recline, a variable central to BN but hitherto ignored in the skin-to-skin and SUPC literature, is unrelated to dress level. This commentary develops a postural argument to increase understanding of the potential role played by the maternal body slope to reduce the risk of idiopathic SUPC. By Suzanne Colson, PhD, Author of Introduction to Biological Nurturing Read More |
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Why are poinsettias associated with Christmas?
There is an old Mexican legend about a poor Mexican girl who had no gift for baby Jesus at Christmas Eve services. As she was walking to the chapel, an angel suggested she pick a handful of weeds to give as a gift to baby Jesus. When she placed the bouquet of weeds at the bottom of the nativity scene, they burst into bright red flowers and everyone declared it a miracle. From that day forward, the bright red flowers were called Flowers of the Holy Night – Flores de Noche Buena.
Read More | | | | | Breastfeeding in Infancy May Reduce the Risk of Major Depression in Adulthood
A recent study has suggested that a history of not being breastfed may be associated with a higher risk of subsequent major depression in adulthood.1 In this study of 52 female and male adults with a diagnosis of major depression, there were also 106 healthy controls who never suffered depression. The authors found that 61 of 84 (72%) subjects had never reported depression, were breastfed. While only 22 of 48 (45.8%) patients with depression, had been breastfed.
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