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Separation anxiety at 8 months

2 May, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

The 8-month developmental leap occurs when the infants have reached some essential developmental milestones: they will sit up on their own or almost, eat solid foods, understand some words, and be able to express basic emotions (anger, sadness, joy). Although, undoubtedly, they still have a lot of learning to do. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that infants experience different cognitive and emotional development stages as they grow and mature. In the sensorimotor stage, which occurs from birth to 2…

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The 4-month sleep “regression”

28 April, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Throughout the breastfeeding journey, there are many moments of change. Some of these new situations are directly related to the baby’s growth and development. Sleep is one of these areas of development. The newborn will go through an evolutionary process of sleep during the first years of its life until sleep is considered more mature. At first, the infant has only two phases of sleep: active sleep and deep sleep. Active sleep is the phase of sleep in which rapid…

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Skin-to-skin: transitioning to life outside of the womb

25 April, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

With the first breath, the lungs expand, and gas exchange begins due to decreased lung resistance. Blood circulation is modified, and in the heart, the orifices and ductus that favor the passage of blood to the fetal brain close. This is a critical moment for the newborn, and it is essential that they are able to make this transition calmly and to the best of their abilities. The transition to life outside the uterus is the time immediately after birth,…

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How to accompany breastfeeding grief

23 April, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Breastfeeding grief can occur when a mother has desired, and even prepared, to be able to breastfeed her baby but is unable to do so because of circumstances. In these cases, very intense emotions are often experienced. The experience of motherhood is full of sacrifice that involves multiple emotional processes that can be categorized as grief. Although these are always natural and normal emotional processes, the healthiest thing for the person experiencing them is to feel accompanied and supported by…

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New scale validated to assess the usability of a mHealth dedicated to breastfeeding

20 April, 2023 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

This past month a scientific paper by the LactApp R+D team was published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics (1). According to the Journal of Citation Reports (JCR) of 2021, this journal has an impact factor of 4.730, belonging to the 23rd position out of a total of 109 indexed in the category “Health Care Sciences & Services”. Therefore, this journal ranks in the first quartile (Q1) and the first tertile (T1) in the corresponding JCR listing. At LactApp,…

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Cleft lip or palate and breastfeeding

19 April, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

How can we maintain (or try to maintain, depending on the severity of the case) lactation in situations of cleft lips, teeth, and palate? What is cleft lip/palate, and how does it affect breastfeeding? During pregnancy, the lips are formed between weeks 4 and 7, and the palate between weeks 6 and 9 of pregnancy. Labial, alveolar and/or palatal clefts occur when the tissues that form these oral structures fail to unite. There is a great variation in the presentation…

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Lactation cookies: how effective are they?

13 April, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Certain foods are believed to have galactagogue properties, such as brewer’s yeast, plantain flower, fennel, fenugreek, ginger, or lactation cookies, among many others. Although the scientific evidence for these products as galactagogues is limited and their effect is not proven (1), these products continue to be recommended to help increase breastmilk supply. In recent years, cookies based on oats, brewer’s yeast, flaxseed, and fenugreek are being marketed, especially in the USA, with alleged galactagogue properties. A recent study published in…

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The lingual frenulum in lactation (tongue-tie)

8 March, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

The lingual frenulum is a fibrous structure that joins the base of the mouth to the tongue. The tongue, in turn, is composed of 17 muscles that allow complex movements to perform these functions. It is a muscular organ involved in the functions of sucking, swallowing, chewing, breathing, and speaking. So what happens when the tongue’s movement is compromised? Today we talk about how the lingual frenulum, which is often referred to as a tongue-tie, affects breastfeeding. The lingual frenulum…

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Infant sleep: does exclusive breastfeeding improve it or make it worse?

5 March, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Infant sleep is one of the most worrying issues for families with a newborn or older baby. Certainly, the lack of knowledge of the physiology of infant sleep and its evolution as a developmental process makes families experience night awakenings as something out of the ordinary, in addition to the resulting fatigue that discontinuous sleep brings with it. To date, the relationship between breastfeeding and the development of infant sleep is not clear: it is, in fact, a very controversial…

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Cuidados neonatalanes para instaurar la lactancia

Neonatal and maternal care in the first hours and breastfeeding initiation

4 March, 2023 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

Neonatal and maternal care in the first hours after birth is important for the initiation of breastfeeding and establishing it properly. Here key points are skin-to-skin contact and the first latch within the first two hours of life. The main strategy to promote breastfeeding physiology is based on grouping and adapting postnatal care, favoring unrestricted skin-to-skin contact, avoiding early separation of the baby from the mother’s body, and facilitating an environment that favors the mother’s release of oxytocin, that is,…

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