...“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...
...the skin and the bodies have changed, the pelvis has changed, that’s why women have different types of babies and different types of problems when delivering babies. It’s all tied...
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...