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Women who do not breastfeed are at greater risk for ___? - Myocardial infarction and aspects of metabolic syndrome & breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer Nursing a baby for a year or more decreases risk of developing ___? - hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease What are the strategies needed for increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration in every country established by WHO & UNICEF? - Breastfeeding promotion, protection, & support Breastfeeding promotion focuses on ___ - advantages of breastfeeding on a personal, community, country, or global level Breastfeeding protection focuses on ___ - government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to assure breastfeeding's ability to compete with commercial interestes Breastfeeding support focuses on ___ - the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program development and implementation Why is breastfeeding so difficult that mothers need help? - 1. Unrealistic expectations 2. Lack of timely interventions The Code - regulates the marketing of breastmilk substitutes which includes infant formulas, follow-on formulas, and any other food or drink, together with feeding bottles and teats, intended for babies and young children. Sets standards for the labeling and quality of products and for how the law should be implemented and monitored within countries What contributes to low rates of exclusive breastfeeding globally? - 1. Caregiver and societal beliefs favoring mixed feeding 2. Hospital and healthcare practices and policies that are not supportive of breastfeeding 3. Lack of adequate skilled support 4. Aggressive promotion of infant formula and other breast milk substitutes 5. Inadequate maternity and paternity leave legislation and other workplace policies 6. Lack of knowledge about the dangers of not exclusively breastfeeding and of proper breastfeeding techniques T/F: Black mothers are more likely than white to breast feed their babies - False. Hospitals in neighborhoods with many black residents do less to promote nursing according to CDC Messages from the breast travel through the ____ to the ___. Then hormones travel to the breast through the ___. - nervous system, brain, blood stream Ongoing milk production is positively associated with suckling within the first ___ hours after birth - 2 For mothers of preemies, initiation of milk expression before ___ resulted in significantly more milk when measured on days 7 & 42 - 1 hour Oxytocin is triggered by - 1. Conditioned response, conditioned milk ejection (let down) reflex 2. Nipple stretching 3. Baby hand massage Hormones of lactation are ___? - Prolactin and oxytocin T/F: Milk composition changes over the course of lactation? Within the day? Within a feeding? Between feedings? - True T/F: Preterm milk appears to be lower in protein, fat, and electrolytes than mature milk - False; higher in protein, fat, electrolytes Foremilk - the milk at the beginning of a feed Hind milk - the milk at the end of a feed T/F: We should not give mothers rules about how long a feeding should last based on ideas of fore and hind milk - True