Imagery boosts breast milk.Imagery boosts breast milk A mother whose newborn lies hospitalized in an intensive care unit often finds it difficult to provide breast milk for her infant. With direct feeding prohibited, she may opt to give the child breast milk expressed with a breast pump breast pump n. A suction device for withdrawing milk from the breast. breast pump Pediatrics A tubular mechanical device that provides gentle suction for milk extraction, used when breasts are engorged or when direct . But the anxiety, fatigue and emotional distress emotional distress n. an increasingly popular basis for a claim of damages in lawsuits for injury due to the negligence or intentional acts of another. Originally damages for emotional distress were only awardable in conjunction with damages for actual physical harm. that generally accompany having a sick infant often serve as powerful inhibitors of lactation lactation Production of milk by female mammals after giving birth. The milk is discharged by the mammary glands in the breasts. Hormones triggered by delivery of the placenta and by nursing stimulate milk production. . Stephen D.K. Feher and his colleagues at the University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889. It also offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. in Albuquerque sought to reduce stress and improve milk production in 30 mothers of hospitalized premature infants premature infant Prematurity, premie; preterm infant Obstetrics An infant born before the 37th wk of gestation and after the 20th wk, who weighs 500–2500 g. See Very-low birth weight. through the use of guided relaxation and imagery techniques provided on a 20-minute audiotape au·di·o·tape n. 1. A relatively narrow magnetic tape used to record sound for subsequent playback. 2. A tape recording of sound. tr.v. . After about one week, average milk production among women who listened to the tape daily was more than 1.5 times that of mothers who did not listen to the tape, they report in the January PEDIATRICS. Among mothers with the sickest babies, milk production in tape-listeners was more than double that in control moms. "There was a relationship between the number of times a mother listened to the tape and the actual volume of milk she expressed," John D. Johnson, one of the researchers, told SCIENCE NEWS. The tape included a guided relaxation of muscle groups with deep breathing, and descriptions of pleasant surroundings, milk flowing in the breasts and the baby's warm skin against the mother. The findings need verification with longer-term studies, the authors caution. |
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