Breastfeeding is the gold standard when it comes to infant feeding due to the significant
health benefits it offers infants. The advantages of breast milk are even greater for infants …

BACKGROUND One of the more common causes of hypotonia, which we shall use as an
example, is Down syndrome. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by a trisomy of …

Children with Down syndrome are less likely to be breastfed than typically developing
children, and breastfeeding has a lower duration compared to recommendations of the …

Feeding Infants with Down Syndrome Page 1 Feeding Infants with Down Syndrome Master’s
Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brandeis …

Despite compelling evidence about the benefits of breastfeeding, little is known about the
breastfeeding experiences of mothers of infants with Down's syndrome. This article explores …

Objective Breastfeeding may have general and specific advantages for both mothers and
infants with Down Syndrome (IDS). The experiences and needs of mothers of IDS have not …

Aim To summarise existing evidence about barriers and enablers to breastfeeding babies
with Down syndrome (DS) in peer‐reviewed literature. Methods Ovid Medline, CINAHL …

This article reports on the findings of a literature review undertaken to examine factors that
influenced breastfeeding among mothers of babies with Down's syndrome. Seven studies …

Several conditions related to serious difficulty in initiating and maintaining breastfeeding in
neonates with Down syndrome are described in the literature. This study aimed to …

Background The health and developmental advantages of human milk and breastfeeding
are particularly important for infants with Down syndrome. However, they typically have …