Development, Evolution, and Human Health (2014 AAAS Annual Meeting (13-17 February 2014))

Voilà une bonne raison pour ne pas allaiter.

#rtl #selon_une_étude_récente

et en lien dans le même article ▻http://www.rtl.fr/actualites/insolite/article/a-londres-des-glaces-au-lait-maternel-font-fureur-7663945824 #gorafi_encore_plagié

Je ne trouve pas le papier sur le lien avec le sexe de l’enfant.
L’auteur, Katie Hinde, travaille au Comparative Lactation Lab et ses publications sont accessibles là ▻http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~khinde/pubs.html

Voici, par exemple dans une de ses dernières publications (un chapitre (le 9) de Primate Developmental Trajectories in Proximate and Ultimate Perspectives

Milk, however, is not merely a product of the mother and her environment. Mother’s milk reflects a complex physiological and behavioral negotiation betweenthe mother and the infant. This negotiation begins during pregnancy when the
mammary gland functionally develops and is potentially sensitive to fetal signals (Hinde and Milligan 2011) . Postnatally, mothers can behaviorally restrict nipple access, thereby down-regulating milk synthesis, and infants can throw tantrums to gain nipple access, consequently up-regulating milk synthesis (Hinde and Milligan 2011) . Lastly, what an infant does with the milk he ingests is crucial to understanding what milk is. Indeed, determining milk’s myriad in fl uences on infant developmental trajectories is critical not just from an evolutionary perspective; it also has implications for global public health. Despite the bene fi ts to be gained from such research, at the time of publication of this book, we still know relatively little about infant development as a function of mother’s milk, and the ways that milk shapes infant behavior is particularly under-explored.

Elle a également co-écrit le chapitre 13.

Elle parle en ce moment-même au congrès annuel de l’AAAS à Chicago, session ▻https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2014/webprogram/Session6907.html
Building Babies : Development, Evolution, and Human Health
Saturday, 15 February 2014 : 8:30 AM-11:30 AM

sur le thème
Food, Medicine, and Signal : Mother’s Milk Programs Infant Development
dont l’abstrait est ici ▻https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2014/webprogram/Paper10771.html et se termine par

Milk matters.

“Dr Katie Hinde, from Harvard, says formula milk should be gender-specific”

NOT EVEN CLOSE. I said that there is emerging evidence that the “biological recipe” for milk for sons and daughters may be different in some species and at some times. This motivates doing more research to better understand what human infants may be adapted to expect in milk. In humans there are 5 total studies on milk for sons compared to milk for daughters, some of them show differences, some of them don’t, so we need more research to understand differences in milk for sons and daughters. Without more research we can’t know how formula could be improved. The work I do has implications for formula, but doesn’t tell us what we should do.

▻http://mammalssuck.blogspot.fr/2014/02/terrible-reporting-by-daily-mail.html

vu sur ▻http://allodoxia.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/02/22/connectome-stereotypes-genre/#ref3

Ah oui ! La suite n’est pas mal non plus…

"She also says some women produce such poor quality breast milk that their babies would be better off with formula milk" -(Daily Mail)

I specifically corrected this statement during the interview when they asked this question. I directly said to the reporters that “I would NEVER say that. I might say that some mother and infant dyads, if infant growth is faltering, could benefit from supplementing with some breast-milk alternatives, as can be recommended sometimes in clinical practice.”

I am, always, an advocate for mothers having ALL the options, and that we should always be endeavoring to make the options better. That we should improve the science, the culture, and environment so that all mothers can achieve their breastfeeding goals.