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Breastfeeding: food for thought…
If you have any contact with women who are giving birth and/or breastfeeding, then I would urge you to consider reading a study published recently in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (which means it’s...
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Could maternal body slope be key to protecting babies?
I caught up briefly with Suzanne Colson at the Midwifery Today conference last month, and was really interested to hear about her take on a possible explanation for the possible link between maternal...
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The importance of immediate/early skin-to-skin after caesarean
“Immediate or early skin-to-skin contact after a Caesarean section may increase breastfeeding initiation, decrease time to the first breastfeed, reduce formula supplementation in hospital, increase...
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Ten things you can do before clamping the umbilical cord…
Inspired by conversations I’ve had with people on my facebook page and elsewhere about research showing that there is no difference in blood gases measured in blood taken before and after clamping the...
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The ten most interesting articles on my reading pile (Spring 2015: part 2)
As I described in the first part of this post, being on the road in recent weeks has led to my finding a larger-than-usual number of interesting articles that I’d like to share, so I have created these...
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Mode of birth and feeding matter for bugs!
A group of Swedish researchers have carried out a study (which is freely available online, thank you authors) to find out how babies’ guts are colonized with microbes, and their findings make for...
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Another example of how touch beats technology?
The authors of a small but fascinating research study have found that manual (by hand) expression may lead to a different quality of breast milk being collected than when a pump is used. This is one of...
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Introducing … breastsleeping
This month has seen the publication of a commentary (in Acta Paediatrica) which needs very little discussion from me, because its premise and argument is so clearly laid out in the title and abstract....
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Eight studies on my reading list (Summer 2016, part 2)
We’re catching up with some recent breastfeeding research studies today! This is the second part of a post that I’ve written because my reading pile has got too high and I’m decluttering and sharing a...
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Home birth is significantly associated with breastfeeding…
A newly-published study which looked at the experiences of more than 28,000 women in the UK and Ireland has shown a significant association between home birth and breastfeeding (Quigley et al 2016)....
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Women with diabetes and expressing breastmilk in pregnancy
Babies born to women who have diabetes are known to have a higher chance of experiencing hypoglycaemia (or low blood sugar). They are more likely to be admitted to a special care baby unit and there is...
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Breastfeeding: food for thought…
If you have any contact with women who are giving birth and/or breastfeeding, then I would urge you to consider reading a study published recently in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (which means it’s...
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