Early infant feeding - additional reading week/lecture 3

Question 1

Appetite self-regulation in infancy - The role of direct breastfeeding - Shrivastava and Jain, 2023

Answer 1

• Advantage of BF is its role in self-regulation of an infants appetite
  
  • children fed exclusively from the breast (that is, they are never bottle fed) develop the capacity for self-regulation of breastmilk intake
    ○ Encourages infant to gain control avoiding overconsumption
  • bottle fed infants (whether mother’s milk or formula milk) are subjected to mother’s or other caregivers encouragement of bottle emptying
    ○ Prevents development of their own appetite responsiveness independently
  • directly breast-fed infants do not consume extra milk once their appetite stimulation phase ends
  • the teaching of bottle emptying during early infancy is positively associated with the weight gain.

Question 2

Breastfeeding continuation is associated with trait mindfulness but not with trajectories of postpartum depressive symptoms - Hulsbosch et al., 2023

Answer 2

• trait mindfulness facet non-reacting was significantly and inversely associated with the risk of breastfeeding discontinuation
  
  • no significant association was found for belonging to the increasing EPDS class versus belonging to the low stable class
  • No significant link between PND and BF continuation