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What are the 2 main hormonal influences of breastfeeding? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Prolactin and Oxytocin
Supportive statement example to encourage someone to
breastfeed - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > What have you heard
about breast feeding?
- open ended
10 steps to successful breastfeeding - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
> written policy, train all staff, inform pregnant woman about
benefits, initiate breastfeeding (skin to skin early), show how to
breast feed, give newborns only breast milk unless otherwise
indicated, practice rooming in, encourage feeding on demand,
no pacifiers, support groups
,reasons why formula replaced breast feeding - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > rigid beliefs (schedules, lack of confidence, anxiety),
status change of women (right to vote, workforce in 20-30s),
sexualization of breasts, lack of support (healthcare, media,
family), workplace free samples, cultural beliefs
International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Must present detailed info on
product composition to health care workers
Cultural attitude that emphasizes sexual nature of breast due to
- ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > harassment of breast feeding in
public
- cultures that sexualize breast are more often to be resistant
What is the job of Prolactin? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Milk
production
Where is prolactin released? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > the
anterior pituitary gland into the blood stream to the alveoli
, What is the main inhibitor of prolactin? - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > progesterone
When is prolactin released? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > When
the placenta detaches, progesterone levels decrease and
prolactin levels increase
What are some other purposes of prolactin? - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > - keeps alveoli glued together
- inhibits ovulation
Remaining fragments of placenta can cause what problem in
breastfeeding? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > delay/decrease the
release of prolactin
What is the job of oxytocin? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > milk
release (the let-down reflex)
- tells the myoepithelial cells (and the uterus) to contract and
move milk to the ducts and out the breast
Where is oxytocin released? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > the
posterior pituitary gland via many stimuli