Aims and objectives To explore midwives' experiences with the implementation of a brief
health counselling intervention to prevent prenatal alcohol use. Background Low levels of …

News reports of decreased nonverbal reasoning in 6-year-old children exposed to alcohol in
breast milk have ignited both concern about drinking during lactation and accusations of …

Contends that the conclusions of RE Little et al (see record 1990-04945-001) about the
detrimental effects of the ingestion of minute amounts of ethanol by infants are not …

Background: Previous research suggests that alcohol use during pregnancy and
breastfeeding has a negative impact on birth and neonatal outcomes. No threshold for this …

OBJECTIVES Based on the content of the article, you will be able to: 1. Describe the
physiology of lactation. 2. List factors that influence breast milk production. 3. List selected …

Despite the lack of scientific evidence to support the claim that alcohol is a galactagogue,
lactating women have been advised to drink alcohol as an aid to lactation for centuries. To …

Background Illicit drug use and licit substance abuse remain a significant problem among
women of childbearing age. The 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health revealed …

Smoking tobacco during breastfeeding has a number of well-documented adverse effects on
infants and lactation. 1 Cigarette smoking reduces milk yield, possibly caused by nicotine …

The main intoxicant in alcoholic beverages is ethyl alcohol (alcohol, ethanol), a relatively
simple organic chemical, made up of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, that is soluble in both …

We would like to report a case of late-onset sepsis with Enterobacter cloacae in a preterm
infant fed expressed mother's milk, which grew the same organism on repeated cultures …