Breastfeeding for Diabetic Women

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Breastfeeding for Diabetic Women
Breastfeeding has been associated with many health benefits for children. Mothers are recommended to breastfeed immediately after delivery, in the delivery room. The first milk is very important to the future health of the baby and many research activities conducted over the years, have confirmed this. This paper shall discuss a research carried out by Chertok, Raz, Shoham, Haddad and wiznitzer (2009) to show the importance of breastfeeding by diabetic mothers. This paper seeks to show that indeed, breastfeeding is crucial to the health of a baby despite the diabetic status of the mother.
Breastfeeding is the act of feeding a young child directly from the breast of a female parent. Nutritionists and other health experts recommend that an infant should be breastfed within the first hour of being born, exclusively breastfeed for the first six months and then be fed with complementary foods until an appropriate age (World Health Organization, 2003). Breast milk is very nutritional, and this provides the child with nutritional advantages that protect the child from diseases. It is for this primary reason that breastfeeding is recommended and should only be an exception under certain circumstances only.
Introduction to the study
The article chosen for this paper focuses on the issue of breastfeeding for diabetic women. This is because there are some an exceptional circumstance under which breastfeeding is restricted. This is the case in diabetic mothers where breastfeeding within the first thirty minutes to one hour of giving birth can lead to complications such as hypoglycemia. The article is very comprehensive as it shows how the research activity was carried out, and the scientific practices put i...

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...cts of Early Breastfeeding on Neonatal Glucose Levels of Term Infants Born to Women with Gestational Diabetes” Journal of Human Nutrition and Diatetics. United States: Blackwell Publishing Limited.
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