Tag: postpartum

• Lactation Drug: Cardiac and Psychiatric Adverse Events | Baby News

  

  In Canada, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario warn about domperidone, originally for stomach problems but used off-label to increase breastmilk production. In October of 2019, Joanna McCabe, a nurse, saw a lactation specialist, Dr Newman, with concerns about her breastmilk production and was prescribed 90mg/day, with another doctor increasing it to 120mg/day.…

  Aradia Wyndham

  May 5, 2024

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• Hospital Nurseries & Newborn IDs in 1930s | Baby History Shorts

  

  In the 1930s, hospital births were becoming more common in the US, for example, in Chicago in 1930, 55% of births took place in a hospital. It’s likely more would have chosen a hospital birth if they could afford it, or weren’t prevented due to segregation. For efficiency, hospitals used nurseries to care for newborns…

  Aradia Wyndham

  April 29, 2024

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• Low-dose esketamine for postpartum depression | Baby News

  

  There is hope that a low dose injection of esketamine following childbirth may prevent post partum depression based on a study published in BMJ. Between June 2020 and Aug 2022, the researchers followed 361 mothers with no prior history of depression, interviewing them 18-30 hours after birth, at 7 days, and on day 42. They…

  Aradia Wyndham

  April 22, 2024

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• The Byrth of Mankynde, 1540 | Book History

  

  Learn more about the first book in English on pregnancy, birth, and newborn care: The Byrth of Mankynde, 1540.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 7, 2020

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• American Postpartum Menu from 1913 | Dr Tuley

  

  While ideas about what constitutes a healthy menu plan have certainly changed; cocoa being delicious and nutritious is eternal.

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 1, 2019

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