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News: February 14, 2012
When Mom Has Pregnancy Diabetes, Breast-Feeding Curbs Child Obesity
FRIDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding reduces the risk of obesity in children born to mothers with diabetes during their pregnancy, a new study indicates. Researchers followed 94 children of diabetic mothers and 399 children of non-di...
Exclusive Breast-Feeding Not the Norm in U.S.
FRIDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- When something's been scientifically proven as good for the body -- nourishing, boosting disease-fighting ability and more -- you might think Americans would clamor to adopt it, especially when the bodies it hel...
Seek Help for Breast-Feeding Troubles, Young Mom Advises
FRIDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Heather Goetsch couldn't figure out why breast-feeding hurt so much. Now 28 and living in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Goetsch had her first baby at 23 and always expected to breast-feed. Her mother enthusiastically su...
Breast-Feeding, Vaccinations Lower SIDS Risk, Experts Say
TUESDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Experts at the American Academy of Pediatrics say breast-feeding and proper immunizations can both lower baby's risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Those are two new recommendations issued Tuesday as ...
Breast-Feeding Boost: Fewer Hospitals Handing Out Free Formula
MONDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer U.S. hospitals send new mothers home with free infant formula, but the overwhelming majority still engage in the practice, to the dismay of breast-feeding proponents, a new survey finds. To determine if t...
Why Many With Breast Implants Fail at Breast-Feeding
TUESDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Women with breast implants who think breast-feeding will change how their breasts look are less likely to nurse their babies successfully, according to a new study. Researchers from the American Society of Pla...
Can Fatty Acids in Breast Milk or Formula Make Kids Smarter?
TUESDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Whether they're fed by bottle or breast, babies seem to turn out smarter when nourished with healthy fatty acids found in breast milk and some formulas, two new studies indicate. The studies, done in the Unite...
Don't Mess With a Nursing Mom!
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding mothers protect their babies and themselves more aggressively than mothers who bottle-feed or women without children, researchers say. The study of 18 nursing mothers, 17 formula-feeding mother...
Breast-Feeding Won't Prevent Kids' Eczema, Researchers Say
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Exclusive breast-feeding of infants for four months or longer does not protect them against developing the itchy skin disorder known as eczema in childhood, new research shows. In exclusive breast-feeding, an...
Blacks at Higher Risk for Resistant Breast Cancer: Study
TUESDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Black women are more likely to have two or more children and are less likely to breast-feed, putting them at greater risk of developing a difficult-to-treat type of breast cancer, according to a new study. The ...
Support for Breast-Feeding Found Lacking in Many U.S. Hospitals
TUESDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Less than 4 percent of U.S. hospitals offer the full range of support services that new mothers need to master breast-feeding, a new government report shows. This is an important issue because breast-feeding pro...
Breast-feeding for 6 Months or More Protects Against Asthma
THURSDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Babies who are exclusively breast-fed for six months or more are less likely to develop symptoms of asthma in early childhood, new research suggests. Although previous studies have found a link between breast-...
Breast-feeding May Shield Against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
MONDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding appears to reduce the risk of SIDS by up to 73 percent, especially when babies are exclusively breast-fed, a new study suggests. Breast milk is widely considered the best food for infants, and stu...
Longer Maternity Leave Ups Breast-Feeding Rates
MONDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Women who stay home longer after having a baby are more likely to breast-feed their babies, a new study indicates. Researchers found that new mothers who were at home for three months or more were about twice as ...
Breast-Feeding May Help Quell Behavior Problems
TUESDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-fed children are less likely to have behavioral problems at age 5 than are those who were given formula, a new study reports. The finding comes from an analysis of data on 10,037 mother-child pairs taking...
Few Babies in Child-Care Centers Receive Breast Milk: Study
THURSDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- While new mothers are strongly encouraged to breast-feed their babies for at least a year, a small study of child-care centers suggests that relatively few are set up to help moms to do so. The research, led by ...
Breast-feeding May Influence Long-Term Health: Study
MONDAY, MAY 2 (HealthDay News) -- Infants who aren't breast-fed may experience long-term health consequences, a new study suggests. French researchers compared growth, body composition (fat mass vs. lean body mass) and blood pressure in three grou...
Longer Breast-Feeding May Be Key to Bigger Brains
WEDNESDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- Longer periods of pregnancy and breast-feeding in mammals are associated with larger brain growth in offspring, which explains why human babies remain dependent on their mother for so long, say researchers. ...
Giving Baby Solid Foods Too Early Linked to Obesity Later
MONDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Babies who were formula-fed and introduced to solid foods before they were 4 months old were more likely to be obese when they were 3, researchers report. The timing of solid foods didn't increase the odds of bec...
Breast-Feeding May Counter Some Effects of Childhood Cancer
TUESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding may help reduce some long-term negative side effects of cancer treatment in women who survived childhood cancer, according to a new study. The findings suggest that making women aware of the bene...
Teens Breast-fed as Infants Have Stronger Leg Muscles
FRIDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Adolescents who were breast-fed as infants have stronger leg muscles and "explosive strength" than those who were not breast-fed, a new study finds. Spanish researchers asked the parents of 2,567 adolescents abou...
Do Breast-Fed Baby Boys Grow Into Better Students?
MONDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Adding to reports that breast-feeding boosts brain health, a new study finds that infants breast-fed for six months or longer, especially boys, do considerably better in school at age 10 compared to bottle-fed t...
FDA Weighs In as Sharing of Breast Milk Booms
FRIDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Human milk has long been considered nature's ideal nourishment for babies. But some breast-feeding experts and advocates disagree whether breast-milk banks -- the subject of fresh scrutiny by the U.S. Food and D...
Breast-Feeding Won't Rob Mom of Sleep: Study
MONDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- It's commonly believed that one of the sacrifices new moms must make in order to breast-feed is their sleep. But new research suggests that's just not the case. The study, published online Nov. 8 in the journal P...
New Moms' Brains May Grow After Childbirth
FRIDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- The brains of new mothers actually get bigger within months of giving birth, according to new research. The researchers, most from the Yale University School of Medicine, said that the growth was likely fueled b...
Breast-Feeding Less Common for Black Moms
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Black mothers in the United States are less likely to breast-feed their babies than other moms, and many cite a personal preference for the bottle as the primary reason, new research finds. Overall, breast-fee...
Trans Fats While Breast-Feeding May Plump Up Baby
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-fed babies are much more likely to put on excess body fat if their mother's diet is high in trans fats, finds a new study. U.S. researchers looked at 96 women and their babies. Infants whose mothers con...
Breast-Feeding for 6 Months May Prevent Infant Infections
TUESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Children who derive all their nutrition from breast-milk during their first six months of life are less prone to a host of common infections, new Greek research says. And when infection strikes, the ensuing il...
U.S. Meets Initial Breast-feeding Goal, Falls Short on Others
TUESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Seventy-five percent of U.S. newborns delivered in 2007 started life breast-feeding -- a figure that meets federal goals -- but that rate plummeted to 43 percent at six months and 22 percent at one year, a fed...
Breast Milk Reduces Infections in Babies
MONDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding seems to provide an immune system boost to infants, helping to prevent respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses in babies, according to new research. Babies who were breast-fed exclusively for 4...
Breast-Fed Babies Know When to Say When
MONDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- Babies who are fed directly from the breast in early infancy tend to consume less later in infancy than their bottle-fed counterparts, new research suggests. This kind of self-regulation of food intake may help e...
Wider Breast-Feeding Could Save Babies' Lives
MONDAY, April 5 (HealthDay News) -- Each year, more than 900 preventable child deaths occur in the United States because too few mothers follow breast-feeding recommendations, a new study has found. Child health problems associated with poor breas...
Long-Term Breast-Feeding Tied to More Aggressive Cancers
FRIDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- Women who breast-feed for six months or more face a higher risk of developing the most aggressive types of breast cancer, but it's not clear whether there's a cause-and-effect relationship, a new study finds. R...
Breast-Feeding Helps Mom Stay Slimmer Later in Life
FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- The benefits of breast-feeding for infants are numerous and well-known, but researchers are finding more and more that breast-feeding can be a boon to mom's health as well. In fact, the latest study on the subje...
Antidepressants May Complicate Breast-Feeding
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- A widely used class of antidepressants can cause delayed lactation in new mothers, which means they may need additional support in order to breast-feed their babies, a new study says. The researchers found th...
For Baby and Mom Alike, Breast-Feeding May Be Best
SUNDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Reports on the benefits of breast-feeding continue to accumulate as researchers evaluate the breast-over-bottle option. It's been shown to help a baby's later performance in school, to reduce the odds of problem ...
Many Women Quit Breast-Feeding Early
SUNDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Though a growing percentage of American moms start their infants on human milk, relatively few continue breast-feeding for the baby's first six months of life, let alone an entire year. Why not stick it out long...
Breast-Feeding Can Help Mom's Heart Decades Later
THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding, even for just a couple of months, can significantly lower a woman's risk of metabolic syndrome -- a dangerous cluster of heart disease risk factors -- years later, reports a new study appearing ...
Breast-Feeding Benefits Moms and Babies: Report
FRIDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding offers health benefits for infants and mothers, and should be promoted and encouraged, says an updated position paper released by the American Dietetic Association. "It is the position of the Ameri...
Exercise Boosts Bone Density in Breast-Feeding Moms
THURSDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- New moms who breast-feed may need exercise -- including cardiovascular activity and strength training -- to fight off a loss of bone density caused by lower levels of calcium, research shows. A new study publis...
It's Time for More Moms to Breast-Feed, U.S. Officials Say
THURSDAY, Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) -- With breast-feeding rates still not at the levels health-care providers and policymakers would like, two U.S. health agencies have decided it's time to take action. Representatives of the U.S. Centers for Dise...
Breast-Feeding May Lower Breast Cancer Risk
MONDAY, Aug. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Women who breast-feed their babies even for short periods of time may lower their risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer if they have a family history of the disease. "We saw a 59 percent lower risk of b...
HIV Drugs Provide Breast-Fed Babies With Some Protection
WEDNESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Antiretroviral drugs appear safe and effective in helping prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child through breast milk, a new international study has found. The researchers found that giving daily...
Breast-Feeding Boosts Child's School Performance
WEDNESDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) -- Children who were breast-fed do better in high school and are more likely to go to college than their bottle-fed siblings, researchers report. While the health benefits of breast-feeding to both infants and m...
Breast-feeding OK for Most Moms with MS
MONDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- New moms with multiple sclerosis who want to breast-feed but worry it might cause their disease to relapse may be reassured by a new study that discovered this is not the case for most women. The study, in the Ju...
Breast-feeding a Boon to Mom's Heart
TUESDAY, April 21 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding isn't just good for baby, it may also boost mom's cardiovascular health as she ages, new research suggests. Women in their 60s who had breast-fed for more than 12 months over their lifespan were...
Hospital Practices Influence Which Moms Will Breast-Feed
FRIDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- Hospital practices such as providing formula or water to supplement breast-feeding significantly reduce the number of mothers who breast-feed only, U.S. researchers report. They analyzed national survey data fr...
Undoing the 'Big Baby' Trend
SUNDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight children, teenagers and adults aren't the only Americans with a weight problem these days. The trend toward bigger and bigger babies is drawing concern from health experts as well. Today, American inf...
Moms Who Breast-Feed Less Likely to Neglect Child
MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Mothers who breast-feed are less likely to neglect their children, Australian researchers report. In their study, the scientists followed 7,223 Australian women and their children for 15 years and found that the...
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