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Does neonatal care delivery in England and Wales vary by deprivation and ethnicity: a retrospective cohort study Objective To investigate whether perinatal care delivery in England and Wales varies by ethnicity and socio-economic deprivation, using National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) measures.Design Retrosp...

bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/9/1/... UK wide paper reporting perinatal optimisation and a few other variables through the lens of ethnicity and deprivation. Timing of cord clamping, admission temperature, mothers milk provision and communication with/involvement of parents showed inequities

There were about 5 RCTs in the 50s/60s. Most showed some increase in milk volume or infant weight gain, some didn't. One neonatal unit RCT from Holland appeared to show dramatic increase in milk yield but larger RCT in UK did not replicate. Yes, potential for more research

Disingenuous to say that nasal oxytocin has too many side effects to use. Several countries use it without problems. Whether its effective is unproven but side effect profile is not a compelling reason for an alternative product (which will presumably be under patent and likely much more expensive)

Thank you for your wonderful review. I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

I wish everyone would read it too.

Especially politicians. Then all doctors, whose voices are unsettlingly quiet on the matter of our government led withdrawal of trans healthcare and how this fits with ‘do no harm’.

Absolutely delighted to see the Child Cancer Smart campaign launch today.

A campaign steeped in evidence aiming to raise awareness and accelerate diagnosis for all children and young people with cancer.

Huge thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to make this happen.

Welcome to the new BlueSky home for the SURFSUP Trial! SURFSUP is a RCT including preterm infants ≥1250g, comparing supraglottic airway surfactant vs minimally invasive surfactant by thin catheter in preventing surfactant treatment failure. We'll be posting updates on the trial here 🏄🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️

"Breastfeeding was something I could do in a body that so often feels limited. I’m so proud of our journey and everything we achieved."

Thanks to Jo for sharing her story with us #DisabilityPrideMonth

Dispelling harmful misinformation about M&S 'trans' bra fitting row Dangerous misinformation over an M&S 'trans' bra fitting story is spreading online; here's what we actually know.

The moment I saw that "trans bra" M & S story I sensed it was nonsense.

Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts.

Superb job of debunking it here
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...

Feel free to submit photos here too! The vision for the project is images from people with a full range of skin tones 🙂 spectrumlactation.org/image-upload...

Graphic for a webinar titled "Lactation and Breastfeeding with a Disability" on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at 12 PM ET, featuring speakers Alesha Thomas, Elizabeth Campbell Soper, and Norma Morán. The flyer features a purple background with speaker photos and accessibility icons indicating the availability of sign language interpretation and closed captioning.

@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social is hosting a webinar TOMORROW discussing how to support parents with a variety of disabilities in lactation and breastfeeding their child.

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#NationalBreastfeedingMonth #NBM #DisabledPregnancy #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2025 #MCH

Still time to join our team! We're exploring how lactation and early nutrition shape lifelong health
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An event flyer with featuring a mashup of the Reddit alien logo and the universal breast-feeding sign. The alien has a little leaf on their antenna. The color scheme is retro, with teal and yellow and navy. There is a speech bubble that says “Boobs?” with a question mark. And the other bubble answers, “Boobs” with a period. Text: LACTATION SCIENCE AMA FRI AUG 1st 12-5 PM EST r/AskScience

Second page of the scrolling flyer. The breastfeeding alien floats in the background. The color scheme is retro, with teal, butter yellow, navy, Air Force blue, and orange/peach tones. In the middle there is a banner that says “Panelists!” With #WBW2025 below it. All around there are different color circles like floating bubbles, and they all have little dots on them like nipples. MEGHAN AZAD, PhD biochemist, epidemiologist, microbiologist REBECCA POWELL, PhD, CLC Human milk immunologist, certified lactation counselor KARINNE CARDOSO MUNIZ, MD Neonatologist, grad student in Pediatrics and Child Health (MSc) MARION M. BENDIXEN, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC board-certified lactation consultant, nurse-scientist, clinical and translational scientist KAYTLIN KRUTSCH, PhD, PharmD, MBA, BCPS Lactation pharmacologist, director of the InfantRisk Center At the bottom it says: r/AskScience There is an arrow pointing to the right.

Third page of the scrolling flyer. The breastfeeding alien floats in the background. The color scheme is retro, with teal, butter yellow, navy, Air Force blue, and orange/peach tones. In the middle there is a banner that says “Panelists!” like page 2. All around there are different color circles like floating bubbles, and they all have little dots on them like nipples. RYAN PACE, PhD Cellular and molecular biologist BRIDGET McGANN Biological anthropologist SANOJI WIJENAYAKE Cell and molecular biologist SARAH BRUNSON, RN/LC, PhD(c), IBCLC Board-certified lactation consultant, PhD candidate in Nursing MIENA HALL, MD, IBCLC Lactation medicine physician, low milk supply researcher RACHEL FRIESEN, BA, BN, RN, IBCLC Nurse educator and neonatal intensive care nurse There is an arrow pointing to the right.

Fourth page. More floating boobs, except this time the boobs do not have text on them. Instead, the text is overplayed over word boxes. On the left is a colorful logo for world breast-feeding week that features a family with a baby drawn in rainbow line with a green arrow encircling them. Below it, the text reads: “#WORLDBREASTFEEDINGWEEK celebrates all breastfeeding journeys, no matter what they look like. It is held in the first week of August every year.” The word “All” is bolded. On the right side of the breastfeeding reddit alien appears again. It is sitting atop a graphic of the earth. Below it, the text reads: “The theme for 2025 is focused on breastfeeding as a sustainable source of nutrition-but one that requires sustainable support systems order to thrive.” “Sustainable source of nutrition” is bolded. “sustainable support systems order to thrive” is both bolded and italicized.

🦖 What was the first animal that breastfed?

👵🏽 Can you breastfeed after menopause?

🌈 Does the color of breast milk mean anything?

🔬 Why does breastmilk contain stem cells?

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🐄 How do different animals milks differ?

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Our response to these findings was to try buccal vitamin D from birth, which has improved rate of vitamin D deficiency. Perhaps we will now see reduction in ALP, PTH etc? Conclusion - we really need RCT evidence for MBD strategies in the NICU! #neosky #bonesky

d) ROC analysis suggested PTH of 11-13 pmol/L has high sensitivity for osteopenia on x-rays, supporting the use of a higher threshold for treatment (we now use 12 to trigger extra calcium supplement). 3/

b) high rate of vitamin D deficiency in our unit; vitamin D was associated with both higher ALP and higher PTH c) increasing PTH threshold for extra calcium supplementation from 7 to 10 had no impact on PTH trajectory but was associated with reduction in severe hypercalcaemia 2/

Markers of Metabolic Bone Disease in Extremely Preterm and Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Four‐Part Cohort Study Spanning Changes in Clinical Approach Aim Analyse the association of markers of metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) with different clinical approaches to MBDP prevention and management. Methods Four-part cohort study in a ter...

New publication on markers of metabolic bone disease in EPT/VLBWs during different clinical regimes. Key points: a) no improvement in ALP/radiological signs/fracture with routine fortification/switch to PTH driven protocol (but v low fracture rate) 1/ share.google/u42DlXULiNzc...

We would aim to have 1 junior resident, 1 senior resident + 1 consultant per up to 8 ITU babies (we have 2 ITUs so two of these teams) or per up to 16 HDU babies, and 1 doctor for up to 10ish LDU/SCBU babies. At night 5 resident drs and one on call consultant

www.amnesty.org.uk/anti-rights Amnesty UK report finding: "a rapidly expanding network of organisations working to undermine human rights protections, targeting reproductive freedoms, LGBTI rights and promoting dangerous practices such as so-called "conversion therapy". "

YouTube video by TransgenderEquality The Gender Recognition Bill Becomes Law in Ireland

Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened.
youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week

The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.

I just read this and it’s wonderful!

Photograph of the Irish coast, Connemara National park. Blue sky, blue water, green land

#bluesky in Ireland 🙂

Fenton Third-Generation Growth Charts of Preterm Infants Without Abnormal Fetal Growth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - PubMed CRD42024589756.

Third generation Fenton growth curves #neosky #ebneo

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40534585/

This update also has a new Excel bulk calculator where you don't have to divide the data into boys and girls which is great 🙂

The 3rd generation Fenton preterm growth charts were recently released, so being a data geek, I did some analysis of how the Fenton 2003/2013/2025 and Olsen 2010 preterm charts compared, and harmonization with the WHO growth standards.

Also some opinionated musing.

#NeoSky #PedSky #rstats #dataviz

Indexed just means journals that PubMed includes in its database - as you say none of those journals are indexed. I'm sure they don't prioritise qual journals at all. If SRs are wanting qual articles they definitely should be searching other databases than PubMed

Pubmed is focused on certain indexed journals. Many of those are free to the author to publish in so it's not the funding per se. Are your publications in non indexed journals? A good systematic review would also search eg PsycINFO, CINAHL to reduce the topic bias of each database

Last day to share your voice on future research priorities for LGBTQIA+ perinatal care (pregnancy, birth and beyond) Bit.ly/PSPTopTen - closing midnight Monday June 9th!

Introducing Break the Barriers Co-producing better maternity care with and for Black, African, Caribbean, and mixed-Black families—grounded in lived experience, advocacy, and research.

🚨New blog: Break the Barriers!🚨

For my PhD, my lived experience partners & I are co-producing research to address #racism in maternity care for Black families in NW London, and we want to share our journey!

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#BlackMaternalHealth #coproduction #healthequity

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.

And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.

This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.