Thanks Sara for posting this link.
I did some browsing this morning just in the free stuff and found some great
stuff!!
I didn't read any of the articles in their entirety..just the abstracts,
browsing whats out there, so I don't speak towards any methodology.
I only looked in one journal...The Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/3/608
Higher maternal plasma docosahexaenoic acid during pregnancy is associated
with more mature neonatal sleep-state patterning1
The study suggests that woman with higher plasma levels of DHA have babies
with more developed CNS. (Sleep-state patterning is a way of measuring the
maturity of infant CNS). This goes back to the discussion not long ago to
maybe we should be supplementing pregnant woman with DHA instead of worrying
about the infant formula.
And of course it makes me think...does the maturity of the infant CNS at
birth have anything to do with eventual outcome?
Also I found
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/3/620
Growth of healthy infants and the timing, type, and frequency of
complementary foods1,2
This study was done on breastfed babies, and looked at differences in growth
from babies starting complementary foods between 4-6 months old. It didnt'
find any significant differences in growth.
It was a longitudal study with infants from 7 countries, using data from the
World Health Organization Multinational Study of Breast-feeding and
Lactational Amenorrhea on infants living in generally favorable environments
were used
There is all kind of stuff for controversal discourse too like this study.
Children who avoid drinking cow milk have low dietary calcium intakes and
poor bone health1,2,3
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/3/675
Only indirectly breastfeeding related, but milk intake appropriateness is a
frequent topic of discussion here.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/1/198
Iron absorption in breast-fed infants: effects of age, iron status, iron
supplements, and complementary foods1,2,3
The researchers found unsupplemented breastfed infants absorbed a greater
amount of Iron from breastmilk then did the supplemented infants.
I plan to search later to see what else I can find. My ISP isn't cooperating
right now, but here is a little taste to show you what I found in just a
quick search.
I'll be having surgery next week, and a long recuperation period. I expect to
spend some of that time browsing these journal articles!
Thanks again Sara, that link is a gold mine.
Here's the link once again
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
June Eastman, BS, M.Ed, IBCLC
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