 Your family and friends who have breastfed can help you. But do not forget that you may need to do things in a different way since your baby was born early or sick.  The nurses and other staff in the hospital will help you. Be sure your nurses know that you plan to breastfeed. Let them know you want to give your milk to your baby as well.  Some hospitals have International Board Certified L...

This paper provides an overview of the form and function of questions in Maltese. An attempt to determine whether information-seeking questions differ from confirmationseeking ones is made. Map Task questions coded for function as QUERY-YN and CHECK/ALIGN, as well as QUERY-WH questions , are examined. The paper aims to establish whether choice of tune in Maltese is determined by function, or wh...

UNLABELLED As milk represents the main source of nutrition for infants, the question of an effective human milk substitute becomes mandatory when a formula-fed baby is allergic to cows' milk proteins. In this case, formulas containing extensively hydrolysed milk proteins should be preferred, but even such a formula may cause allergic reactions in highly sensitive patients. If there is evidence ...

Breast milk is the recommended nutrition for infants. For preterm infants, when mother's milk is not available, pasteurized donor milk is recommended (1). Non-Hispanic black mothers are at increased risk for having a preterm birth and for not breastfeeding (2,3); however, it is not known whether demographic disparities exist in the use of breast milk in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Da...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate the dynamic experience of patients who recently experienced the stressful situation of being diagnosed with colorectal cancer and undergoing surgery. RESEARCH APPROACH A qualitative and inductive inquiry. SETTING General hospitals in Japan. PARTICIPANTS 12 patients who had undergone colorectal cancer surgery and had been discharged in the previous six mon...