Infant suffocation while breastfeeding

Minimizing infant exposure to and risks from medications while breastfeeding.

The advantages of breastfeeding to the mother and newborn are many. Lactating mothers frequently ask about the safety of taking medications and the risk to their newborn. It is well established that all drugs are excreted into breast milk. However, most medications appear in only small amounts within the breast milk. With the availability of numerous resources on drug use while breastfeeding, a...

The unsolved problem of infant suffocation.

Failure to Thrive While Breastfeeding

The mother was a 34-year-old, white, married woman who worked as a bank cashier. She was previously well and had not had breast surgery or infertility. It was a planned, uneventful, second pregnancy. She had a spontaneous vaginal, vertex delivery at 42 weeks following a prolonged second stage. She sustained a large, second-degree tear. Following the delivery, she required intravenous oxytocin; ...

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 ...