Breastfeeding for Gut Infant Health

Breastfeeding and health outcomes for the mother-infant dyad.

Worldwide, breastfeeding saves the lives of infants and reduces their disease burden. Breastfeeding also reduces the disease burden for mothers. This article examines who chooses to breastfeed and for how long in the United States. It also reviews the latest evidence about the consequences of breastfeeding for the health of the infant and mother. This review provides support for current nationa...

Factors affecting infant gut microbiota and possible consequences for health

F rom once being employed as an extreme measure, to save a fetus on the death of the mother, cesarean section is used more commonly now as a mode of delivery for entirely non-medical reasons (1). A sharp increase in cesarean delivery has been noted in most Western countries during the past decades; in the United States, one-third of all babies is now being delivered by cesarean section (2); in ...

Breastfeeding and Infant Growth

Breastfeeding and Infant Intelligence

Introduction The development of human beings, like any other organisms, is affected by the method and means of feeding. Breastfeeding has many undisputed benefits recognized across the board by the medical community. However, modern life makes it that physical breastfeeding effects are not an issue of life or death, or even keeping serious illnesses away (Christakis, 2013). Consequently, women ...

Breastfeeding the preterm infant

Due to its peculiar nutritional and non-nutritional contents, which include long-chain polyunsatured fatty acids (LC-PUFA), prebiotics, immunological factors, hormones and growth factors, breast milk shows significant advantages over infant formulas in nourishing preterm infants. Better neurocognitive outcomes, which are reported to persist far beyond the early childhood, have been largely obse...