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| Best Start Baby- Breastfeeding Classes!
Breastfeeding is the normal way to feed human infants. It is the healthiest feeding choice for our babies and mom’s health benefits, too! Every highly regarded health organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months with complimentary foods and fluids until, at minimum, a year and many recommend continuing even longer. According to the most recent CDC statistics only 35.9% of 3 month old and 9% of 6 month old Wisconsin infants are exclusively breastfeeding and only 16.4% are breastfeeding at all by their first birthday. The US national averages are similar. Best Start Baby- Breastfeeding Class will help you and your baby meet your breastfeeding goals for the healthiest start! In class, we will focus on: Making a commitment Getting off to a great start Where to find breastfeeding resources and support How to support a breastfeeding mom and baby And, addressing your breastfeeding questions and concerns.
Through discussion, videos and hands on activities you will feel more prepared and empowered to breastfeed your baby and be rewarded by experiencing the benefits, pleasure, and joy that breastfeeding your child will bring. Next Class: Wednesday, March 10, 6:30-9pm Brookfield, WI call 414.708.0121 to register (If you need to attend a class prior to the above date, call me! Individually scheduled classes are available.) Any questions regarding this class or others, can be directed to:
Wendy Kogler, CD, CLC, LCCE wendyadoula@wi.rr.com 414.708.0121 www.darlingdoulaservices.com
Read More about the wonders of Breastfeeding!
| | Recommended Reading Breastfeeding Made Simple by Nancy Mohrbacher Recommended Website www.breastfeedingmadesimple.com e-mail me and i'll send you my complete resource and support handout! Breastfeeding Support Wendy Kogler, CLC in your home or hospital $26/hour including travel. * NEW SERVICES* Pre-Baby Consults Breastfeeding Doula Services Don't hesitate contacting me! e-mail consults are free and encouraged! wendyadoula@wi.rr.com Two happy clients-all done via e-mail: "I just wanted to say thank you for staying in touch with me and cathching the Thrush. I'd approached several people and they did not catch this. My son and I are much happier and doing much better. He and I went to sleep in peace tonight for the first time in many weeks... ... He will be healthier and happier for this and so will I. Thanks again." ~~Heather and son , Brookfield, WI | |
| How Breastfeeding Transfers Immunity To Babies
ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2008) - A BYU-Harvard-Stanford research team has
identified a molecule that is key to mothers' ability to pass along immunity
to intestinal infections to their babies through breast milk.
The study highlights an amazing change that takes place in a mother's body
when she begins producing breast milk. For years before her pregnancy, cells
that produce antibodies against intestinal infections travel around her
circulatory system as if it were a highway and regularly take an "off-ramp"
to her intestine. There they stand ready to defend against infections such
as cholera or rotavirus. But once she begins lactating, some of these same
antibody-producing cells suddenly begin taking a different "off-ramp," so to
speak, that leads to the mammary glands. That way, when her baby nurses, the
antibodies go straight to his intestine and offer protection while he builds
up his own immunity.
This is why previous studies have shown that formula-fed infants have twice
the incidence of diarrheal illness as breast-fed infants.
Until now, scientists did not know how the mother's body signaled the
antibody-producing cells to take the different off-ramp. The new study
identifies the molecule that gives them the green light.
"Everybody hears that breastfeeding is good for the baby," said Eric Wilson,
the Brigham Young University microbiologist who is the lead author on the
study. "But why is it good? One of the reasons is that mothers' milk carries
protective antibodies which shield the newborn from infection, and this
study demonstrates the molecular mechanisms used by the mother's body to get
these antibody-producing cells where they need to be."
Understanding the role of the molecule, called CCR10, also has implications
for potential future efforts to help mothers better protect their infants.
"This tells us that this molecule is extremely important, so if we want to
design a vaccine for the mother so she could effectively pass protective
antibodies to the child, it would be absolutely essential to induce high
levels of CCR10," said Wilson.
Speaking broadly about the long-term applications of this research, BYU
undergraduate Elizabeth Nielsen Low, a co-author on the paper, said, "If we
know how these cells migrate, we'll be able to hit the right targets to get
them to go where we want them."
Daniel Campbell is a researcher at the Benroya Research Institute in Seattle
a nonprofit organization that specializes in the immune system, and was not
affiliated with this study.
"The molecular basis for this redistribution [of the mother's cells] has not
been well characterized, but Dr. Wilson's work has begun to crack that code
and define the molecules responsible for this cellular redistribution and
passive immunity," Campbell said. "It is important work that fundamentally
enhances our understanding of how immunity is provided to the [baby] via the
milk. Dr. Wilson's study will certainly form the basis for many other
studies aimed at uncovering how the immune system is organized, particularly
at mucosal surfaces."
To conduct their research, the team used so-called "knock-out mice" that had
been genetically engineered to lack the CCR10 molecule. Whereas normal
lactating mice had hundreds of thousands of antibody-producing cells in
their mammary glands, the BYU team found that the knock-out mice had more
than 70 times fewer such cells. Tests verified that the absence of CCR10 was
responsible for the deficiency.
Surprisingly, the research also showed that CCR10 does not play the same
crucial role in signaling antibody-producing cells to migrate to the
intestine. Another molecule is their "traffic light."
The findings will be published in the Nov. 1 issue of the Journal of
Immunology.
The study was supported by Wilson's grant from the National Institutes of
Health, funding which continues for another 18 months and supports his and
his students' further investigation into the cells behind transfer of
immunity in breast milk.
Wilson's other students who are also co-authors on the paper are Yuetching
Law, Kathryn Distelhorst and Erica D. Hill. The Harvard Medical School
co-authors are Olivier Morteau, Craig Gerard, Bao Lu, Sorina Ghiran and
Miriam Rits. The Stanford University School of Medicine co-authors are
Raymond Kwan, Nicole H. Lazarus and Eugene C. Butcher. | |
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