OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of metoclopramide and domperidone on the breast milk output of mothers with infants in neonatal intensive care. DESIGN Double-blind randomised controlled trial. SETTING Tertiary level neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). SAMPLE Eighty mothers expressing breast milk for their infants (mean gestational age 28 weeks) based in NICU and the amounts expressed fe...

This study investigated whether the prenatal maternal environment in dairy cattle influences the postnatal milking performance of the resulting daughters and grand-daughters. Linear mixed models were used to analyse whole season milk production from ∼ 46,000 Jersey and ∼ 123,000 Holstein Friesian cows in their 1st and 2nd lactations. Variation in the prenatal environment was associated with a s...

Background: Fenugreek and Fennel seed has galactogogues properties due to phytoestrogen structure and can increase the volume of breast milk. Objective: The aim of this study was to comparison the effect of herbals teas containing Fenugreek seed and Fennel seed on the signs of breast milk sufficiency in girl infants with 0-4 months of age. Methods: This study was a triple blind clinical tria...

BACKGROUND Feeding breastmilk to premature infants decreases morbidity but is often limited owing to an insufficient milk supply and delayed attainment of lactogenesis stage II. Early initiation of milk expression following delivery has been shown to increase milk production in mothers of very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. Although recommendations for milk expression in this population inclu...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to provide information that can be used as a guide to clinicians when advising breastfeeding mothers on normal lactation with regard to the frequency and volume of breastfeedings and the fat content of breast milk. METHODS Mothers (71) of infants who were 1 to 6 months of age and exclusively breastfeeding on demand test-weighed their infants before and after every breastfee...

HIV can be transmitted by breastfeeding. The virus is inactivated by heating. A simple and inexpensive method has been devised by which expressed breastmilk may be pasteurised in a domestic setting. The method uses the principle of heat transfer from 450 ml of water heated to boiling point in an aluminum pot to a smaller volume of milk in a glass jar placed into the water (Pretoria Pasteurisati...

1. To examine the relations between short- and long-term regulation of food intake in calves given milk-substitute diets, abrupt changes were made in the dry matter (DM) concentration of the diet (Expt 1) and in the frequency of feeding (Expts 2 and 3). 2. When calves, fed once daily, had the DM concentration of their diet changed, they drank the same volume of milk on the 1st day they received...

[This corrects the article on p. 555 in vol. 62.].