Protecting baby from Coronavirus.

The Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) are keeping an eye on developments within the data extracted from different countries currently fighting the Coronavirus pertaining to pregnancy and birth.

They say "Pregnant women do not appear to be more likely to be seriously unwell than other healthy adults if they develop the Coronavirus."

Vertical transmission is when an infection is caught by the mother whilst pregnant and passed onto the baby through the placenta. A virus is usually tiny enough to do this and is why the flu vaccine is always offered to pregnant women as flu is also caused by a virus and can easily pass the placenta into baby.

Women protect their babies by producing antibodies to infections and passing these on to baby through the placenta.

Problems arise when the baby is born and no longer has this protection from every illness the mother has ever had. The only way to remedy this lack of protection is to give new born babies their mothers own milk.

Human milk contains all the antibodies a baby needs to protect him or her from illnesses the mother has suffered in her lifetime. The only alternative: formula milk (made from cow milk) contains zero antibodies and offers no protection whatsoever.

It has been known for many decades that breast feeding your baby develops their immune systems to full capacity making them much less likely to develop Asthma, Eczema, Diabetes, Obesity and Food Allergies.

If a mother picks up the Coronavirus during or after her pregnancy, and then fights it off, the antibodies she produces will protect baby in the womb and whilst breast feeding.

What greater gift can a mother give to her baby during these uncertain times?

We are Women, We are Wonderful!

New Pain Free Labour Book now Available from Amazon to Download.

Discover why the hormone adrenaline can cause contractions to become painful during labour. And how to take measures to counteract this happening. xxx

Are you human, or are you cow fed?

Research into giving new born human babies cow milk (formula) to drink instead of our own mum made human milk is costing the NHS millions in sick children!

As a retired midwife I am now working as a doctors receptionist and it breaks my heart to see all the damaged children. Susceptible children are suffering from Eczema,  Asthma, Diabetes, Obesity and Allergies. All because formula manufacturers do not have warnings on the label to give mothers an informed choice.

• Azad M.B., Vehling L., Lu Z., Dai D., Subbarao P., Becker A.B., Mandhane P.J., Turvey S.E., Lefebvre D.L., Sears M.R. Breastfeeding, maternal asthma and wheezing in the first year of life: A longitudinal birth cohort study. Eur. Respir. J. 2017;49:1602019. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02019-2016. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

        

Our results strengthen the existing evidence that breastfeeding confers protection against wheezing in early life, and further identify features of this association. We observed stronger protection from longer and more exclusive breastfeeding, primarily in infants with maternal history of asthma.

         

• Klopp A., Vehling L., Becker A.B., Subbarao P., Mandhane P.J., Turvey S.E., Lefebvre D.L., Sears M.R., Azad M.B. Modes of infant feeding and the risk of childhood asthma: A prospective birth cohort study. J. Pediatr. 2017;190:192–199. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.07.012. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

  
  Modes of infant feeding are associated with asthma development. Direct breastfeeding is most protective compared with formula feeding; breast milk confers intermediate protection. Policies that facilitate and promote breastfeeding could have impact on the primary prevention of asthma.

• Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 Apr; 95(15): e3391.

      Published online 2016 Apr 18. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003391

      Exclusive or Partial Breastfeeding for 6 Months Is Associated With Reduced Milk Sensitization           and Risk of Eczema in Early Childhood

The PATCH Birth Cohort Study

Chih-Yung Chiu, PhD, Sui-Ling Liao, MD, Kuan-Wen Su, MD, Ming-Han Tsai, PhD, Man-Chin Hua, MD, Shen-Hao Lai, MD, Li-Chen Chen, MD, Tsung-Chieh Yao, PhD, Kuo-Wei Yeh, MD, and Jing-Long Huang, MD

The rate of breastfeeding for at least 6 months remains low despite the widely recognized benefits of breastfeeding. Exclusive and partial breastfeeding for 6 months appears to decrease the prevalence of milk sensitization and protect against the development of eczema in early childhood. Although exclusive breastfeeding is recommended as the primary health strategy, continued partial breastfeeding for at least 6 months should also be encouraged to reduce milk sensitization and the risk of developing eczema in early childhood.

• Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800,000 child deaths and 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year.

Date:

January 29, 2016

Source:

The Lancet

Summary:

Just 1 in 5 children in high-income countries are breastfed to 12 months, whilst only 1 in 3 children in low and middle-income countries are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months. As a result, millions of children are failing to receive the full benefits provided by breastfeeding. The findings come from the largest and most detailed analysis to quantify levels, trends, and benefits of breastfeeding around the world. 

• Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Immune System Development

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116142

08/08/2018 · In addition to protecting against infection, human milk has both short-term and long-term effects, such as prevention and protection against allergic reactions; optimal behavioral, cognitive, and gastrointestinal development; and, may protect against chronic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases .

• Cited by: 12
• Publish Year: 2018

• Author: Julio Plaza-Díaz, Luis Fontana, Angel Gil
• Location: 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD

Once damaged your children are damaged for good! Write to your MP and demand that formula cow milk packaging have warning on them so as not to mislead parents into thinking that this is a safe way to feed babies.

In the future when all the research into human milk comes to the attention of the popular mass media (what's trending) women are going to get really mad that they have been conned into damaging their precious children by not being made more aware of the risks of using formula cow milk.

Only we can change the future. Only mothers can give the precious gift of human milk to their babies to develop them fully into the person they were always meant to be. Only women can make this choice but it has to be an informed one. 

Are we human or are we cow fed?