ObjectiveTo investigate the protective effect of high-proportion breast milk feeding (>50%) on intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in very preterm infants (VPIs).MethodsThis was a retrospective secondary analysis of a prospective multi-center study ...
Zhi Zheng +13 more
doaj +1 more source
Predictors of breast-feeding in a developing country: results of a prospective cohort study. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: Data on the prevalence and predictors of breast-feeding remain scarce in Lebanon. Moreover, no study has previously addressed the effect of the paediatrician's sex on breast-feeding.
Nassif, Yolla +16 more
core +1 more source
Effect of breast feeding on intelligence in children: prospective study, sibling pairs analysis, and meta-analysis [PDF]
Objective To assess the importance of maternal intelligence, and the effect of controlling for it and other important confounders, in the link between breast feeding and children's intelligence.
Der, G. +5 more
core +1 more source
Breast-feeding protects against arsenic exposure in Bangladeshi infants. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Chronic arsenic exposure causes a wide range of health effects, but little is known about critical windows of exposure. Arsenic readily crosses the placenta, but the few available data on postnatal exposure to arsenic via breast milk are not ...
Nermell, Barbro +29 more
core +1 more source
Neonatal weight loss in breast and formula-fed infants [PDF]
We have observed an increase in the number of breast fed babies presenting with dehydration and/or failure to thrive because of lactation failure and non-recognition of feeding problems.
Young, D +3 more
core +4 more sources
Expressing yourself: A feminist analysis of talk around expressing breast milk [PDF]
Recent feminist analyses, particularly from those working within a poststructuralist framework, have highlighted a number of historically located and contradictory socio-cultural constructions and practices which women are faced with when negotiating ...
Leeming, Dawn +5 more
core +1 more source
Midwifery basics. Infant feeding: skills to support infant feeding [PDF]
Infant feeding: is the twelfth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. It aims to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on women’s experience and encourage midwives to seek further information ...
Marshall, Joyce
core +3 more sources
Midwifery basics. Infant feeding: The social context of infant feeding [PDF]
Infant feeding: is the twelfth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. It aims to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on women’s experience and encourage midwives to seek further information ...
Marshall, Joyce
core +2 more sources
A case-control study of the effect of infant feeding on celiac disease [PDF]
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the duration of breast-feeding and the age at the first gluten introduction into the infant diet and the incidence and age at onset of celiac disease. Methods: In a case-control study,
Peters, Ulrike +3 more
core +1 more source
Membrane composition and thermodynamic identity as boundaries of life for synthetic cell research
What makes a cell a cell? The boundary of a living cell is not just a wall. Read as a Markov blanket, the membrane separates internal from external states, generating identity and non‐equilibrium order. Can this identity be rebuilt from scratch in a synthetic cell?
Caterina Presutti, Bert Poolman
wiley +1 more source

