Health Scan: Mother's milk improves in long-term nursing
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JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH, THE JERUSALEM POSTOct. 2, 2005
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The nutritional value of mother's milk has been found to be much higher during long-term breastfeeding (for more than a year) than when it is only for up to six months. This finding was disclosed by a research team headed by Dr. Dror Mendel and Dr. Ronit Lubetzky, pediatricians at the Lis Obstetrics Center at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center.
They studied 61 women, 27 of whom breastfed for up to half a year and the rest between 12 and 39 months. The percentage of fat in mother's milk during long-term breastfeeding averaged at 11 percent and reached as high as 28%, while breast milk of women who nursed their babies for only several months averaged 7.4% and went as high as 12%. Not only was the fat level higher, but also the number of calories in milk during long-term nursing - 880 kilocalories per liter compared to 741 in short-term nursing. In any case, the latter figure is significantly higher than that of baby formulas. Infancy is not a time for weight-reducing diets, as newborns need a lot of healthful calories to develop, thus the added fats and calories are considered very beneficial.
Mendel, who worked on the study with Prof. Francis Mimouni, Prof. Shaul Dolberg and Dr. Shimon Barak, said the findings constituted the first scientific-academic study comparing the nutritional value of mother's milk in shortterm and long-term breastfeeding. It counters a myth among pediatricians that the longer a woman breastfeeds, the less nutritious her milk.

Must be a long time since I've mentioned anything about my breastfeeding blues......coz now I don't have any....so shiok

Anyway,we took Yasmin to Geylang some two days ago.Yipeee!But she got a bit choked by the smells and smoke of the "pasar malam".....but on the whole....we ,the parents,enjoyed it more.Hahaha....what do you expect of a 19mths old child anyway?

We managed to buy a couple of things including Yasmin's shoes and clothes.The shoes we got for her so remind me of the days when I was a child.No wonder my dad love to buy me those kinda shoes.But no I'm not gonna show any photos. Hahaha....wanna show off my dear Yasmin during Hari Raya of course.(spoken like a true proud mama again.)

These days....it's really must enjoyable to hear her babble.She's like a parrot...simply following what you say...with simlar intonations mine you.....so damn funny....

And of course,she's attracted to much of the television commercials.Loves the Magnolia cow's saying-Baguuuus!,the paint advertisement (the one with the Sumo wrestler) and Taufik Batisah in the Harmuni's advertisement-that's where she learn how to "salam" after seeing Taufik doing the same with his mum....

Verdict:MTV gotta be out of her sight lah...