SIG Chair: Infant Nutrition, Breast Feeding & Neonatology


Tanya L Wagner, MS LMNT RD

2011 - 2012
Clinical Dietitian, Neonatal/Maternal
Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center/ARAMARK
Lincoln, Nebraska
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Nov 2011 Today's Dietitian--Donor Milk Banks vs. Milk Sharing (CPE article)

Article: Donor Milk Banks vs. Milk Sharing — Are They Competition or Complementary Services?
Vol. 13 No. 11 P. 44

www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/110211p44.shtml

CDC report--Hospital Practices to Support Breastfeeding, US 2007 & 2009

From the CDC...hot off the press!

Vital Signs: Hospital Practices to Support Breastfeeding --- United States, 2007 and 2009  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)  August 5, 2011 / 60(30);1020-1025

Go to this web site for full details:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6030a4.htm?s_cid=mm6030a4_w

Infant Formula Mixing Recipes--not in updated Infant Feeding Guidelines book

We have recently received several inquiries and wanted to clarify this for our members.     The new edition of the Infant Feeding Guidelines book does not contain infant formula mixing recipes.

**The infant formula mixing recipes for in hospital are now available to PNPG members, as well as subscribers to the ADA on-line Peds Nutrition Care Manual.
PNPG members can access these recipes at:
http://www.pnpg.org/node/10531

You will be prompted to log in, and after you have done so you will be able to download the PDF file for these recipes.

**Household measurement recipes for infant formula are also available to PNPG members... these were published in a PNPG Post newsletter last year.
Go to: http://www.pnpg.org/post/article/20/3/8

You will prompted to log in, and after you have done so the recipe mixing tables will open for you in a new window.

If you have any additional questions/concerns, please contact the PNPG Publications Chair (Sharon Collier)?

Simply Thick, LLC Announces Voluntary Recall

Simply Thick, LLC Announces The Voluntary Recall Of Products Manufactured By Thermo Pac, LLC At Their Stone Mountain, GA Food Processing Plant

For full details of this recall, go to: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm257841.htm?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4ded35f08275f53f%2C0

A complete list of affected date codes will be posted on the SimplyThick website at www.simplythick.com/recalleddatecodes1 within the next day.

PNPG members can click "read more" link (below) to read more on this issue.

[Exclusive and mixed breastfeeding in a maternity unit in France, 2003]

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