Recent General Surgery News indicates that when obese women undergo bariatric surgery before the pregnancy, their babies are healthier. There are measurable metabolic differences when children born after the surgery were compared with the control group - children born before the surgery.
The post-bariatric surgery children had lower cholesterol level, less problems with insulin resistance (i.e. metabolic problem leading to diabetes). They also had belly fat five times less than their older siblings. Difference was noticeable even at birth. The infants born after their mothers' bariatric surgery weighed 17% less and had 86% less macrosomia (big baby, usually weighing more than 9 lbs. 15 oz.), i.e. less delivery complications.
The researchers saw mother's gestational health condition mirrored in their children. For instance, children of women who had undergone bariatric surgery measured less body mass index (BMI).
Excerpts from: bariatric%20surgery%20and%20pregnancy.html
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Obesity and changing nursing bra sizes
Tues, September 15, 2009
The American Heart Assn says the biggest cause of Type 2 Diabetes in U.S. is obesity. Obesity is a big contributor to not only Diabetes, it also is associated with potential for increasing heart disease, sleep apnea, and joint problems, to name a few.
Changing requirements for airplane seats is a negative side effect of obesity. Unfortunately, American women will need bigger nursing bras, too.
This is a dilemma for us nursing bra pad manufacturers. We are making EPIBi(TM) Nursing Pads only in two (2) sizes: 4" (for bra size 32~34) and 5" (for bra size 36 and up). Should we be making bigger ones to accommodate enlarging breast sizes of American women entering motherhood?
Please send your thoughts to: ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
The American Heart Assn says the biggest cause of Type 2 Diabetes in U.S. is obesity. Obesity is a big contributor to not only Diabetes, it also is associated with potential for increasing heart disease, sleep apnea, and joint problems, to name a few.
Changing requirements for airplane seats is a negative side effect of obesity. Unfortunately, American women will need bigger nursing bras, too.
This is a dilemma for us nursing bra pad manufacturers. We are making EPIBi(TM) Nursing Pads only in two (2) sizes: 4" (for bra size 32~34) and 5" (for bra size 36 and up). Should we be making bigger ones to accommodate enlarging breast sizes of American women entering motherhood?
Please send your thoughts to: ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
Monday, September 14, 2009
Home birth with midwife safe
09/14/2009 ANA SmartBrief via Yahoo!/HealthDay News (8/31) by Amanda Gardner
Canadian researchers looked at data on almost 13,000 births. Infant mortality rate was 0.35 per 1,000 for those occurring at home, compared with 0.57 for hospital births attended by midwives and 0.64 for physician-assisted deliveries.
Aurthor, Patricia Janssen, conducted the study in British Columbia. This study may have selected only the healthiest birthing mothers, so the results may be biased towards home births. Nevertheless, more studies are showing home births as a safe alternative for healthy pregnant mothers and their babies.
However, midwifery is not a regulatd profession in U.S. A uniform regulatory process and licensure needs to be established.
Also intriguing is that home births may promote immediate breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact between mom and baby.
Elly Hann: ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
Canadian researchers looked at data on almost 13,000 births. Infant mortality rate was 0.35 per 1,000 for those occurring at home, compared with 0.57 for hospital births attended by midwives and 0.64 for physician-assisted deliveries.
Aurthor, Patricia Janssen, conducted the study in British Columbia. This study may have selected only the healthiest birthing mothers, so the results may be biased towards home births. Nevertheless, more studies are showing home births as a safe alternative for healthy pregnant mothers and their babies.
However, midwifery is not a regulatd profession in U.S. A uniform regulatory process and licensure needs to be established.
Also intriguing is that home births may promote immediate breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact between mom and baby.
Elly Hann: ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
breastfeeding reduces vaccination pain
As a parent, I used to watch our son receive painful vaccination and allergy shots without any anesthesia. The only thing I could offer was a tight hug, often inviting disapproving looks from nurses and physicians.
According to the American Nursing Association's Smartbrief, a new Turkish study published in March, 2009 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, breastfeeding significantly reduced vaccination pain in babies. When pediatricians measured crying time and pain (Infant Pain Scale and Children's Pain Scale) during vaccination in children between ages of 6 to 48 months, breastfed babies suffered less pain .
Children who received either sucrose (sugar water) or lidocaine-prilocaine (cream) also had reduced pain, but the cream is expensive and more time consuming.
ellyhann@persimmonscientific
According to the American Nursing Association's Smartbrief, a new Turkish study published in March, 2009 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, breastfeeding significantly reduced vaccination pain in babies. When pediatricians measured crying time and pain (Infant Pain Scale and Children's Pain Scale) during vaccination in children between ages of 6 to 48 months, breastfed babies suffered less pain .
Children who received either sucrose (sugar water) or lidocaine-prilocaine (cream) also had reduced pain, but the cream is expensive and more time consuming.
ellyhann@persimmonscientific
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Breastfeeding and Obesity
I recently read about a celebrity who stated that the secret to her slim figure is breastfeeding.
How many of you nursing moms think that's true?
Dr. Yvonne E. Vaucher wrote in the San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition's Breastfeeding Update newsletter in April 2006 that "Breastfeeding, compared to formula feeding will not prevent obesity. The protective effect of breastfeeding on overweight and obesity is small, but real and of significant public health impact."
Given that obesity in the U.S. is of epidemic proportions, if breastfeeding can help you achieve healthy weight a little faster, it certainly would be significant.
Your comments are welcome.
Elly Hann
ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
How many of you nursing moms think that's true?
Dr. Yvonne E. Vaucher wrote in the San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition's Breastfeeding Update newsletter in April 2006 that "Breastfeeding, compared to formula feeding will not prevent obesity. The protective effect of breastfeeding on overweight and obesity is small, but real and of significant public health impact."
Given that obesity in the U.S. is of epidemic proportions, if breastfeeding can help you achieve healthy weight a little faster, it certainly would be significant.
Your comments are welcome.
Elly Hann
ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
Friday, August 14, 2009
Thrush (yeast infection) in breastfeeding women
Recent increase in diabetes in U.S. population is a big concern. Diabetes is becoming more prevalent in younger people due to obesity.
Diabetes will increase complications for pregnant women, including thrush during breastfeeding. High glucose level will encourage colonization of Candida Albicans (yeast germ that causes thrush) on the nipple, breast tissue, and vagina. Their infants will be more likely to be infected by Candida during birth.
Thrush during breastfeeding can be serious, because it can cause mastitis, infection and of breast. It appears to be more common than physicians, nurses, or lactation specialists have suspected. Diagnosis is a challenge, so when nipple pain is accompanied by other signs of infection, such as redness, swelling, or itchiness, etc., a nursing mom should promptly see a physician or a lactation specialist.
I also wonder if certain types of nursing pads promote thrush. Yeast loves dark, moist, warm places, such as skin condition during breastfeeding. No clinical trials have been done to study how some nursing pads are linked to breast infections.
EPIBi(TM) nursing pads by Persimmon Scientific offers nursing pads impregnated with germ-killing activity against Candida Albicans, MRSA, and Pseudomonas germs.
These nursing pads are undergoing their first production, and they are expected on the market in mid-October, 2009.
Would love to hear back from readers about your experiences with thrush. Elly Hann
ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
Diabetes will increase complications for pregnant women, including thrush during breastfeeding. High glucose level will encourage colonization of Candida Albicans (yeast germ that causes thrush) on the nipple, breast tissue, and vagina. Their infants will be more likely to be infected by Candida during birth.
Thrush during breastfeeding can be serious, because it can cause mastitis, infection and of breast. It appears to be more common than physicians, nurses, or lactation specialists have suspected. Diagnosis is a challenge, so when nipple pain is accompanied by other signs of infection, such as redness, swelling, or itchiness, etc., a nursing mom should promptly see a physician or a lactation specialist.
I also wonder if certain types of nursing pads promote thrush. Yeast loves dark, moist, warm places, such as skin condition during breastfeeding. No clinical trials have been done to study how some nursing pads are linked to breast infections.
EPIBi(TM) nursing pads by Persimmon Scientific offers nursing pads impregnated with germ-killing activity against Candida Albicans, MRSA, and Pseudomonas germs.
These nursing pads are undergoing their first production, and they are expected on the market in mid-October, 2009.
Would love to hear back from readers about your experiences with thrush. Elly Hann
ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
Urgent call to action to boost breastfeeding
According to the HealthDay Reporter, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Women's Health are holding a conference to get more women to breast-feed.
By the time their babies were 6 months old, only 32 percent of women were still breast-feeding in 1999, compared with 43 percent in 2005-06. And by the time the babies were 1 year old, the number had declined even further: to 15 percent in 1999 and 22 percent in 2005-06.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization recommend that mothers exclusively breast-feed their infants for the first six months of life and then continue the practice with other nutrition thereafter.
Public policy push such as this will also encourage physicians, nurses, midwives, and dullas to openly discuss breastfeeding with their patients. It's about time.
Elly Hann
ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
By the time their babies were 6 months old, only 32 percent of women were still breast-feeding in 1999, compared with 43 percent in 2005-06. And by the time the babies were 1 year old, the number had declined even further: to 15 percent in 1999 and 22 percent in 2005-06.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization recommend that mothers exclusively breast-feed their infants for the first six months of life and then continue the practice with other nutrition thereafter.
Public policy push such as this will also encourage physicians, nurses, midwives, and dullas to openly discuss breastfeeding with their patients. It's about time.
Elly Hann
ellyhann@epibinursingpads.com
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