ArticleInternational breastfeeding journal2016
Breast milk DHA levels may increase after informing women: a community-based cohort study from South Dakota USA.
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- Changes in the Fatty Acid Profile of Lactating Women Living in Poland-A Comparison with the Fatty Acid Profile of Selected Infant Formulas.Nutrients · 2024Article
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- The contributions of parental lactation on offspring development: It's not udder nonsense!Hormones and behavior · 2023Review
- Human Milk Lipids and Small Metabolites: Maternal and Microbial Origins.Metabolites · 2023Review
- Associations of maternal inflammatory states with human milk composition in mothers of preterm infants.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
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- Comparative Analysis of Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) Content in Mother's Milk of Term and Preterm Mothers.Nutrients · 2022Observational
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- Pilot study of the effect of EPA + DHA supplementation on the fatty acid profile of erythrocytes and breast milk of lactating women from Sonsón, Colombia.Current research in food science · 2022Article
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- Fish Nutritional Value as an Approach to Children's Nutrition.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
- Breastfeeding predicts blood mitochondrial DNA content in adolescents.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Human milk fatty acid composition is associated with dietary, genetic, sociodemographic, and environmental factors in the CHILD Cohort Study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Article
- The Concentration of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Human Milk Is Related to Their Habitual but Not Current Intake.Nutrients · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundDocosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in breast milk, has many health benefits for both mother and baby. A 2007 meta-analysis found U.S. women had breast milk DHA levels (0.20% of total fatty acids) below the worldwide mean (0.32%). In 2008, international dietary recommendations were made for pregnant and lactating women to consume 200 mg of DHA per day. This community-based study aimed to define current milk DHA levels from upper Midwest USA lactating mothers and to determine if providing information about their own level along with dietary recommendations would incite changes to increase breast milk DHA content.
methodsNew mothers attending lactation classes or using hospital pumping rooms in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA participated by providing one drop of breast milk on a card for fatty acid analysis at baseline and 1 month after initial reporting. DHA levels were analyzed by gas chromatography. Mothers received a report of their own breast milk level along with dietary recommendations on DHA intake for lactating women. Median baseline and follow-up DHA levels were determined and differences were compared by Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
resultsAt baseline, breast milk DHA content (
conclusionsFindings suggest that providing nursing mothers with their breast milk DHA level and education about DHA intake while breastfeeding motivates change to increase DHA levels.
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