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Want to learn about the Importance and Management of Breastfeeding? The Philips Learning Center offers a course to educate healthcare professionals. This course contains videos and other reference materials. If you create an account in the Philips Learning Center, use the enrollment key 5d35ac80e5265 and the course will appear on your My Learning homepage. Visit the Philips Learning Center for the course Importance and Management of Breastfeeding
Welcome to the Education and Events website of Philips Avent. On this website, you can find educational material, including video presentations of fellow healthcare professionals, trainings and product demonstrations. Furthermore, the website will give you information regarding the annual Philips Avent Scientific Symposium and other events in which Philips Avent participates. Everything on this website is available for you and your colleagues to review and share at any time. As a healthcare professional, you know that every mother and baby deserves the best care possible - before, during, and after a newborn enters the world. At Philips Avent, we share your passion and support your mission. We're committed to delivering solutions throughout the first 1000 days. Because we want to help you support parents in setting the stage for healthy futures.
Lenie van den Engel-Hoek is a speech language therapist working in the Amalia’s Children Hospital of the Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. In this video she explains the broad perspective of infant feeding physiology and shares the first conclusions of the study that was done in partnership with Philips Avent. In this study, the coordination of sucking, swallowing and breathing in healthy infants was researched, while drinking from the Philips Avent Classic and Natural bottle.
A comprehensive 60-page book for new mothers and moms-to-be. We help answer some of their questions about babies and motherhood. Mothers will learn the essentials – including the physiology of babies, breastfeeding questions, and maintaining milk production.
Mary Fewtrell is Professor of Paediatric Nutrition and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK. Following her training in Medicine and Paediatrics, she has worked in Infant & Child Nutrition research for 23 years. Human milk is the optimum diet for all infants but may have particular benefits for high risk groups such as those born preterm. Since preterm and sick infants are often unable to breast-feed effectively, the provision of maternal breast milk relies on milk expression. Mothers who deliver a preterm infant may need to express milk for prolonged periods, and they require support and advice on how to maximise their milk production. Available evidence suggests that the most successful strategies result from the application of physiological principles derived from an understanding of the processes involved in normal lactation; including the mechanism by which infants obtain milk from the breast as well as hormones and psychological factors. Successful strategies thus focus broadly on (1) hormones (prolactin, oxytocin, cortisol); (2) psychological factors such as counselling and relaxation therapies which may act via these hormones; and (3) physical factors which include how milk is expressed (frequency and style of expression including breast massage) and the design of breast pumps which more closely mimic how an infant breastfeeds, incorporating elements of compression as well as suction. Whilst these strategies have particular significance for mothers of preterm infants who may rely on milk expression for long periods, they can also be applied to mothers who wish to express milk for their term infant. Read abstractShow less
Nurul Husna is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia. She received her PhD in infant nutrition from University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, where her research project focused on mother-infant signalling during breastfeeding. Maternal psychological state is recognized to be influential for lactation success, largely by affecting milk ejection. Thus, increased stress and anxiety can disrupt milk flow and, in the long term, affect milk synthesis. Conversely, milk ejection could possibly be improved by using relaxation therapy during breastfeeding. However, a recent systematic review investigating the effectiveness of relaxation therapy for breast milk composition and volume, and infant behaviour and growth found a limited number of studies. Relaxation therapy was shown to increase milk volume in mothers of pre-term infants in two randomized trials, but neither investigated effects on infant outcomes, and no study has yet been performed in mothers of full-term infants. To address this research gap, a randomised controlled trial was conducted to test the effectiveness of relaxation therapy (guided imagery recording tape) on breastfeeding and infant outcomes in mothers of full-term infants. The study found that the intervention was effective in reducing maternal stress during lactation, favourably affecting breast milk composition (macronutrient and hormonal components) and positively influencing infant behaviour and growth. Given that relaxation tools such as the tape used in this study are generally simple to apply, these results suggest that further research is warranted to investigate potential applications of relaxation therapies for improving breastfeeding outcomes in different settings. Read abstractShow less
In March 2019, Philips Avent organized the 3rd Scientific Symposium around “Proven and practical approaches to breastfeeding; from hospital to home”. Would you like to have a recap of the Scientific Symposium? Please go and visit our website via the button below, where you can find recordings of the key note speakers and their abstracts, a photo impression and a summary video of the event.
Breastmilk, the best foundation for a healthy start in life
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