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She bore two sons who both died in infancy, but by the time she was about to give birth to their third child, her husband lay dying at Falkland Palace.
Breastfeeding is associated with a lower incidence of infant diarrhoea and respiratory disease, particularly in less developed countries [ 1 ] . A recent ecological study on breastfeeding showed that more than half of all infant deaths from diarrhoeal disease and acute respiratory infections in Latin America are preventable by exclusive breastfeeding in infants aged 0-3 months and partial breastfeeding throughout the remainder of infancy [ 2 ] . The theoretical basis for this may be a combination of the nutritional and immunomodulatory effects of human milk [ 3 ] . Since 2001, the WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding up to the age of 6 months (World Health Assembly Resolution 55.
Depressed mothers have been found to display negative behaviors towards their infants, which have been shown to adversely affect the child during infancy and in later childhood [ 2 3 ] . A more minor and transient condition known as postpartum blues has a much higher incidence, affecting 50% to 80% of new mothers [ 4 ] . Its symptoms, which include weeping, sadness, irritability, anxiety, and confusion, often resolve by the second week of delivery [ 5 ] , but can still have a negative impact on postpartum mothers in the precarious days following birth.
Claus' older brothers, Berthold and Alexander, were twins; Claus, too, had a twin, who died in infancy.
Certainly it is no passing fad, dependent on vogue words, for despite its infancy it employs such age-old terms as alas, albeit, perforce , and withal . Nor it can be taxed with pedantry, demonstrably, for on occasion it makes use of colloquial expressions like for starters, likewise, for sure , and no doubt about it . Above all, though some people might think otherwise, it definitely does not involve clichés.
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