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Why do pregnancy and lactation increase the BMR?
Pregnancy and lactation increase the BMR because of the high energy required to maintain the pregnancy and lactation.
What role does prolactin play in the body?
It is essential for the development of the mammary glands for lactation during pregnancy, and for stimulating and maintaining lactation after child-birth.
Is it true that the levels of FSH and LH increase during lactation?
No, this is not true. FSH starts to suppress during pregnancy. LH remains low throughout lactation, but begins to rise again during weaning.
What nutritional needs are higher lactation or pregnancy?
Lactation--a newborn baby consumes more than a baby in utero.
What has the author Bonnie S Worthington-Roberts written?
Bonnie S. Worthington-Roberts has written: 'Nutrition in Pregnancy and Lactation' -- subject(s): Health education, In pregnancy, Lactation, Mothers, Nutrition, Nutritional aspects, Nutritional aspects of Pregnancy, Pregnancy
Does smoking cause lactation?
No. The most common cause is pregnancy.
What hormone promotes glandular tissue during pregnancy and produces milk after the birth of an infant?
Prolactin or lactogenic Hormone (PRL) promotes glandular tissue during pregnancy and produces milk after the birth of an infant
What does prolactin stimulate and what gland produces it?
It stimulates lactation in the mammary glands, and is produced by pituitary gland
What is the lactation period of sheep?
Lactation is the production of milk by the mammary glands and occurs during pregnancy and after birth if the offspring are being fed their mother's milk. The lactation period of sheep depends upon how long they are allowed to feed their young or how long they are milked for. When either of these cease, so does milk production.
Does oxytocin prevents premature births?
No oxytocin is used to stimulate labor. In humans, oxytocin stimulates milk let down during lactation, uterine contraction during birth and is released during sexual orgasm in both men and women.
How do you make your nipple produce milk?
Strange, but true ... men can lactate. Apparently when the baby begins to suck on the male breast, something biologically happens and lactation starts.
What is the function of progesterone?
Progesterone inhibits lactation during pregnancy, allow for the acceptance of the pregnancy, converts the endometrium to its secretory stage to prepare the uterus for implantation, affects the vaginal epithelium and cervical mucus and also decreases contractility of the uterine muscle.
