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Breastfeeding
Buenos Aires health program launched a prevention campaign
Breastfeeding could save each year, the lives of some 1.3 million children a year, said the World Health Organization.
The activity worldwide, aims this year to reinforce the importance of breastfeeding to save lives in situations marked by natural disasters, wars or pandemics, such as influenza A H1N1.
“The immune system during pregnancy, is naturally suppressed, why women are more vulnerable to infections during this period,” said Flavia Ranieri, Provincial Program Coordinator Maternal and Child Health Ministry of Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, referring to pregnant women as a group at risk.
In this sense, Health Program recommends Aires “pregnant women to continue their monitoring of pregnancy and addressed, if possible, in the health center (CAPS) closest to your home.”
“From go to the hospital, pregnant women with febrile symptoms and can not wait to request priority attention,” reports the same health program.
Do not stop breastfeeding even when they have flu symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Breastfeeding, immune system during pregnancy, influenza, Lactation, pregnant women
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Mar 22nd, 2010
How to breastfeed twins
For breastfeeding binoculars most mothers choose to give them one you take two baby seals, and another taken at each separately. This has the advantage of having a more intimate contact with each baby. However, if your baby suck well you can give the breast to both simultaneously.
If babies are still very small, a comfortable position to nurse is to sit in bed, the couch or rocking chair cushions and place in the other two arms and two on your thighs. It supports the baby on pillows and holding her Cabecita with each hand. His feet are below your arms around your back.
If your baby is already bigger, you feel the same way as in the previous position but places two pillows in the lap. It supports the baby in the crook of your elbows, with hands on your buttocks and legs on your thighs. This posture is to hold them too.
Another position for breastfeeding is to combine the previous two. Put two pillows on your lap and place one of the babies in the posture of the previous point. Place another baby as in the first position. The head of the second baby to stay close to the belly of the first baby.
Tags: Baby Care, Breastfeeding, comfortable position, simultaneously, twins
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Jan 22nd, 2010
What is rubella? How is it manifested?
Rubella is a viral disease, transmitted from person to person through secretions and produces a picture of fever, neck nodes and rash. In 50% of people go totally unnoticed by the individual who will relay it. Usually presents no risks or complications in the general population, but if a woman who has contracted the disease antibodies in the first trimester of pregnancy, rubella can severely affect your child.
Most women now have antibodies against rubella, either by having experienced, or have received the measles vaccine. A minority of women of childbearing age, however, has no antibodies. The rubella vaccine is given along with measles and antipaperas is called MMR, and belongs to the official schedule of vaccination. It is compulsory to year and school admission. Although much of the female population is safe during pregnancy serological investigations in the U.S. have indicated that even 10 to 20% of young adults are susceptible to the disease.
Why is it important to check the mother?
After delivery, the baby has these antibodies “borrowed” from the mother to have passed through the placenta and breast milk if you get too pass this way. These antibodies are depleted in the second half of life, at which time the child is susceptible to infection until the time of vaccination.
In the ideal situation the doctor should know the HIV status of the mother before conception, but the doctor rarely has contact with the family at this time. Therefore, if the mother has not previously been checked, rubella antibody detection can be crucial to prevent the disease during the next pregnancy. Since the vaccine consists of attenuated viruses, it is inadvisable to conceive for the next three months to the application.
So that the time after birth is presented as the ideal opportunity for vaccination. Breastfeeding is not a contraindication for vaccination.
Tags: Breastfeeding, first trimester of pregnancy, Rubella, vaccination, viral disease
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Nov 6th, 2009
Smoking during pregnancy
Can I smoke while pregnant?
Smoking is absolutely contraindicated during pregnancy.
If you are trying to conceive would be good to quit as soon as possible, or if in your case, you got pregnant unexpectedly and sustained smoking is good for your baby to give up this habit in the very moment you learned you were going to be a mom.
Maternal consumption of snuff can lead to important implications and complications to the baby.
During pregnancy:
• Perinatal mortality: is higher in infants of smokers. It suggests a direct relationship to the level of consumption of snuff: the greater the consumption the greater risk.
• fetal weight at birth: babies born underweight which means that probably their lungs are fully developed and must use the first few days on a ventilator.
• Complications during pregnancy such as placenta previa, ectopic pregnancy, vaginal bleeding and preterm delivery.
After birth:
• Breastfeeding: it is proven that nicotine passes into breast milk.
• Sudden death: the children of parents who smoke are at greater risk. No one should smoke in the home, car or wherever you are baby.
• Respiratory diseases of childhood: the children of mothers who smoke tend to have more respiratory infections and asthma.
Tags: Breastfeeding, contraindicated during pregnancy, During pregnancy, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Tips, pregnant woman, Smoking during pregnancy
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Oct 24th, 2009