Midterm Term 2 - Handouts Flashcards
This tissue in the breat is involved with the production of breast milk:
Glandular Tissue
Type of tissue that supports other tissues and binds them together
Connective Tissue
This substance nourishes the breast tissue and provides nutrients needed for milk production
Blood
The colorless fluid that travels through the lymphatic system and carries cells that help fight infection and disease
Lymph
Makes the breast sensitive touch, allowing the baby’s sucking to stimulate let-down or milk-ejection reflex and milk production
Nerves
This tissue protects the breats from injury. It what mostly affects the size of a woman’s breast.
Fatty tissue
Special cells inside the breast that make milk
Alveoli
The alveoli make milk in response to this hormone
Prolactin
This hormone makes the small muscles around the cells to contract and move the milk through a series of small tubes (milk ducts).
Oxytocin
In the early stages the mother this rich, thick yellowish milk which gives the baby early protection against diseases.
Colostrum
After ____ the white milk comes in.
3-5
If you nurse for a few days,
baby will have received colostrum, packed with nutrition and antibodies which help the baby’s digestive system going and gives him his/her first “immunization.”
If you nurse 4 to 6 weeks,
will ease baby through most critical part of infancy, rarely sick or hospitalized and have few digestive problems (establish a bond with baby)
If you nurse 3 to 4 months,
baby’s digestive system will have matured and wil be able to tolerate the foreign substances in commercial formulas
If you nurse for 6 months,
you will have supplied all of your baby’s nutritional needs and will be ready to try some other foods
If you nurse for 9 months,
will help better performance all through school years
If you nurse for a year,
you will have saved enough money, baby is ready for a whole range of new foods
What food types make up the MyPyramid?
grains, vegetables, fruits, milk, and meat&beans
You should eat at least ___ oz every day of this food group.
6 ; grains
You need to eat at least _____ cups every day from this food group.
2 1/2 ; vegetables
Kids need to eat ____ cups every day from this food group.
1 1/2 ; fruits
Kids need at least ____ cups every day from this food group.
3 ; milk
Kids need to at least eat ___ oz every day from this food group.
5 ; meat & beans