THE PSYCHOSOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE OF BREASTFEEDING

The Psychosocial and Emotional Experience of Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is acknowledged as optimal infant nutrition, yet despite high initiation rates, early cessation remains common.To understand why, we asked mothers in Western Canada how they felt about their breastfeeding experience.A total of 191 women (response rate UHF Transceivers 35%) responded to a survey distributed by public health nurses.Whil

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A Case of Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome: Postpartum Cerebral Angiopathy in a 32-Year-Old Primigravid Treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin

This is a case of a 32-year-old primigravid who developed sudden severe headache on the 7th day postpartum associated with focal Womens Pajama neurologic deficits and altered sensorium.She had a GCS score of 6, anisocoric pupils and an NIHSS score of 31.Cranial MRI with MRA showed multifocal hyperacute to acute infarcts on the left occipital lobe,

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Concurrent hypokalemic periodic paralysis and bipolar disorder

Primary periodic paralysis is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of ion-channel dysfunction, manifested by episodic flaccid paresis secondary to abnormal sarcolemma excitability.Membrane destabilization involving Na, K-ATPase has been hypothesized to be a biological etiology of the bipolar disorder (BD) and the mechanisms underlying lithium therapy

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