Breastfeeding And Lung Function At School Age: Does Maternal Asthma Modify the Effect?

Breastfeeding is associated with improved lung function at school age, particularly in children of asthmatic mothers, according to a new study from researchers in Switzerland and the UK. “In our cohort of school age children, breastfeeding was associated...

Breastfeeding Regulations in Indonesia to Target Formula Companies

For Naslima, a mother of two in the fishing village of Genteng Parakan, there was never any doubt over how to feed her babies. “It’s better to breastfeed than to give formula. Babies that breastfeed are healthy,” Naslima, who like many...

South Africa Changes Policy on Breastfeeding

South Africa’s high child mortality rates have forced the government to rethink its policy on infant feeding and move to discontinue the free provision of formula milk at hospitals and clinics, as well as promote an exclusive breastfeeding strategy...

South Africa’s Health Minister on a Mission to Encourage Mothers to Breastfeed

South Africa’s Health Minister is on a mission to encourage mothers to breastfeed as a way of promoting optimum infant health.

Limpopo Health And Social Development MEC Dikeledi Magadzi Expected to Lead Campaign to Promote Breastfeeding

Limpopo Health and Social Development MEC Dikeledi Magadzi is expected to lead a campaign to promote breastfeeding as part of World Breastfeeding Week. How People Arrived Here: Limpopo Health and Social Development

Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho Officially Launches Children’s Protection And Welfare Act

Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho has officially launched the Children’s Protection and Welfare Act 2011 as well as the start of World Breastfeeding week, marked annually on the first week of August. How People Arrived Here: childrens protection...

Less Than 4% of U.S. Hospitals Provide the Full Range of Support Mothers Need to be Able to Breastfeed

Breastfeeding protects against childhood obesity, yet less than 4 percent of U.S. hospitals provide the full range of support mothers need to be able to breastfeed, according to the most recent Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease...

Mothers in South Africa Encouraged to Breastfeed

Natal MEC for Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, has called on mothers to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months of their baby’s life. The call was made as the province prepares to roll out the Infant and Young Child Feeding policy from January...

Oxytocin: It’s a Mom And Pop Thing

The hormone oxytocin has come under intensive study in light of emerging evidence that its release contributes to the social bonding that occurs between lovers, friends, and colleagues. Oxytocin also plays an important role in birth and maternal behavior,...