You have probably seen the latest mother-shaming campaign sponsored by, big surprise, Nestle. In case you don’t know, Nestle makes synthetic infant formula, and has gotten into trouble from the World Health Organization for its aggressive marketing tactics against breastfeeding. The latest ad campaign put out by the Brazilian Paediatric Society of Rio Grande […]
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Target Policy Supports Breastfeeding Moms
Target, it’s a place of retail happiness for so many women and they just gave us one more reason to love them! A photo of their breastfeeding policy posted to Breastfeeding Mama Talk has gone viral and it is simply fantastic. Target tells their employees exactly how to deal with breastfeeding in their stores. […]
Autism risk spotted in abnormal placentas
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that abnormal placentas may be able to help diagnose risk for autism in newborns. “Kliman and his team examined 117 placentas from infants of at-risk families, those with one or more previous children with autism. These families were participating in a study called Markers of Autism Risk […]
Placenta is a reliable biomarker for arsenic exposure
The placenta carries oxygen and nutrition to the fetus and is also responsible for removing waste products from the baby. The placenta does not act as a filter as we commonly think of filters (such as coffee filters or air filters), holding onto toxins over the course of the pregnancy. It passes waste products […]
Do baby boys lead to more weight gain in pregnancy?
An analysis of 68 million births over 23 years has found a link between maternal weight gain and boy fetuses. “Over all, 51 percent of babies born are boys. But Kristen J. Navara, an endocrinologist in the Poultry Science Department at the University of Georgia, found that the amount of pregnancy weight gained and […]
A mother’s mouth impacts the placenta’s bacteria
It has long been thought that the mothers’ womb is a sterile environment. However, new findings are showing that a baby is first exposed to microbes in utero. The bacteria of a placenta is similar to that of the mother’s mouth, which is thought to be passed to the baby from foods consumed by the […]
