General Anaesthetic and Breastfeeding Fact Sheet by Dr Wendy Jones “On a daily basis mothers are being told that they have to stop breastfeeding if they have a general anaesthetic. No consideration seems to be given to the risks of not breastfeeding it feels, nor that women breastfeed as normal after a caesarian section (although…
Mandarin Speaking Playgroup / Breastfeeding Support Group Hornby Plunket, 29 Tower Street, Hornby. 10am – 12 pm every 2nd and 4th Tuesday starting June 2018. Contact: Jenny Saito jenny.saito@plunket.org.nz or 027 281 5918 Off street parking at Tower Street and Brynley Street. Caregivers and babies welcome. No registration necessary. FREE to join. Play area for children…
The New Zealand Breastfeeding Alliance is celebrating Matariki and breastfeeding. Link here Kia pai tatou Matariki Celebrate Matariki by welcoming women to breastfeed He wahi tautoko tenei i te kaupapa whangai u
Application of cabbage leaves compared to gel packs for mothers with breast engorgement: Randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Nursing Studies 2017 Wong et al Abstract BACKGROUND: The effects of cold cabbage leaves and cold gel packs on breast engorgement management have been inconclusive. No studies have compared the effects of these methods on breast…
Fed is Best: The Silence Speaks Volumes – “Your silence on engaging in constructive dialogue speaks volumes.” Kimberley Seals Allers “A few months ago, over 80 infant health organizations sent the Fed is Best Foundation an open letter asking to have a constructive dialogue regarding their concerns and vocal campaigns about the treatment of insufficient…
Professor Amy Brown – Why Fed Will Never Be Best: The FIB Letting Our New Mothers Down A minimal standard “Firstly, the phrase ‘fed is best’ is nonsensical. At NO point has anyone ever suggested that if a baby can’t be breastfed then they should starve. Luckily in developed countries if a baby does not…
Pumping experiences survey, pt1 – from the Team Anthropology blog – Aunchalee Palmquist, Elizabeth Quinn and Cecilia Tomori “We started the pumping experiences survey to see how mothers would respond to differences in pump output, based on their normal pumping experiences. We had predicted that mothers who had dramatic changes in output in the experiment…
Adverse Drug Reactions in Breastfed Infants: Less Than Imagined Link here Medication use during breastfeeding shortens the duration of breastfeeding often because of overly cautious information given by healthcare providers. No comprehensive review of the literature on infant adverse reactions from drugs in breastmilk has been published. All published studies and case reports on adverse…
BBC News – Baby-led weaning ‘not choking risk’, finds Swansea uni “This study adds to previous research conducted in smaller sample groups that also showed this approach does not increase the risk of a baby choking, and indeed in the UK, supports the Department of Health recommendation that babies can have finger foods from six…
No difference in self-reported frequency of choking between infants introduced to solid foods using a baby-led weaning or traditional spoon-feeding approach – Dr Amy Brown. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 2017 Results In total, 13.6% of infants (n = 155) had ever choked. No significant association was found between weaning style and ever choking, or the…