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Chapter 6.7 of the book "Vitamin & Mineral Requirements in Human Nutrition" is presented. This section offers several recommendations for vitamin K intakes. It presents the consideration of the requirements of vitamin K for infants. The association of vitamin K deficiency bleeding with breastfeeding is also discussed.

This publication presents the scientific evidence concerning the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection through breast feeding. The author describes the benefits of breast feeding for mothers and infants. She notes that breast milk protects against common childhood infections, such as diarrhea, pneumonia, neonatal sepsis and acute otitis media. However, she claims that it is less clear whether breast milk provides similar protection in areas of high HIV-prevalence.

The article presents guidelines from the World Health Organization on conducting kangaroo mother care for low-birth-weight babies. According to the author, kangaroo mother care is a technique of caring for pre-term infants carried skin-to-skin with the mother. Its main features include continuous skin-to-skin contact between the mother and the baby, exclusive breastfeeding, and adequate support and follow-up from the mother.

An encyclopedia entry for "breast-feeding" is presented. Epileptic women are encouraged to breast-feed as most believe its benefits outweigh potential problems from the fraction of antiepileptic drugs (AED) reaching the breast milk postpartum. It is said that an inverse relationship between protein binding and degree of expression is found with highly protein bound AEDs with a lower breast milk concentration.