The aim of this review is to evaluate changes in protein parameters in the second year
postpartum. There is considerable agreement among authors about the declining trend of …

Background Emotional distress in mothers inhibits the let-down reflex, thus affecting
breastfeeding self-efficacy. A breastfeeding mother may have to cope with both physical …

Background It has been demonstrated that children who had been breastfed remain better
protected against various infections, and notably respiratory tract infections, well beyond …

1 The Section on Nutrition and the Circulation Section of the European Society for Pediatric
Research (ESPR) have always been committed to the highest standards of children's safety …

Objectives: To examine the effect of early human milk (HM) feeding on the incidence of
retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) among very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. Methods …

Aim: This study evaluated the impact of an exclusive human milk diet to nourish extremely
low birth weight infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Materials and Methods: This …

This paper quantifies the fundamental limits of variable-length transmission of a general
(possibly analog) source over a memoryless channel with noiseless feedback, under a …

Multiple pregnancy increases the risk of a range of adverse perinatal outcomes, including
breastfeeding failure. However, studies on predictive factors of breastfeeding duration in …

Background: An increased rate of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is reported in
extremely preterm infants. A potential role of human milk feeding in protecting against this …

Background: Previous research has reported that infants fed donor milk grow slower than
those fed formula. However, most of the trials used unfortified donor milk, which limits the …