...“Vitamin D: Pregnancy and Lactation – Preventing Complications, Growing Healthy Babies” by Dr. Carol Wagner, MD, approximately 50% of the comorbidities of pregnancy from preeclampsia to preterm labor, infections, and...
...vitamin D (Black an average of 28 ng/ml, Hispanic an average of 30 ng/ml, White an average of 40 ng/ml). The babies, however are deficient. Research shows Black babies have...
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...3, 2017 World Breastfeeding Week Not enough vitamin D in breast milk, no supplementation, and no sun puts far too many babies at risk of deficiency, and at increased risk...
Is Breastmilk Broken? It is well-known that most breastfeeding babies are not getting adequate vitamin D and if a mother were to bring this topic up during a baby’s well-visit,...
...organizations and other stakeholders to work toward stronger, healthier babies in our State,” said BZ (Melanie) Giese, Director, SCBOI for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. “Programs...
A recent article published in the East-Bay Area, California, makes a rousing cry for change within the healthcare system in order to protect Black mothers and their babies. The...
...As of 2015, the US had a preterm birth rate of 9.6%, roughly 1 in 10 babies were born prematurely, about 380,000 babies in the US each year. The US,...
...in the baby to optimize growth, development and immune function. Babies are growing up vitamin D deficient. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding infants take 400 IU vitamin D...
...breast feeding, more babies are off infant formula and are not getting vitamin D supplementation. This would be fine if the mother had a daily vitamin D intake (through sun...