{"id":25,"date":"2004-07-26T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T23:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2004-07-26T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T23:19:48","slug":"low-hormone-in-obese-women-linked-to-cutoff-in-breast-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/26\/low-hormone-in-obese-women-linked-to-cutoff-in-breast-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Low hormone in obese women linked to cutoff in breast-feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Bowman in <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Overweight and obese women tend to have a weaker biological response to their babies suckling, which might be the chief reason that such mothers are more likely to stop breast-feeding earlier than normal-weight moms, according to a nutrition expert.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Rasmussen, a professor of nutrition sciences at Cornell University who has been studying breast-feeding patterns among overweight women for more than a decade, said overweight and obese women produce less prolactin, a hormone made by the pituitary gland that stimulates the breast&#8217;s milk glands to produce milk soon after birth.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/183418_medi24.html\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Bowman in Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports: Overweight and obese women tend to have a weaker biological response to their babies suckling, which might be the chief reason that such mothers are more likely to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}