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6. What allows FIL to to accumulate and thus slow down milk production?

  • Infrequent, restricted or scheduled feeding
  • Lack of skin-to-skin
  • Sleep

7. Prolactin levels are higher during which hours?

  • 2am-6am
  • 2pm-6pm
  • 8am-12pm

8. What does oxytocin stimulate?

  • contractions of the myopithelial cells surrounding the alveoli
  • Production of milk
  • Inhibits the production of milk

9. What happens to the receptor cells on the lactocytes if breastfeeding isn't initiated within the first few hours after birth?

  • Nothing
  • Aren't primed thus begin to deteriorate and shut down
  • Shut down completely

10. Where is oxytocin released from?

  • Posterior pituitary gland
  • Anterior pituitary gland
  • Ovaries

11. FIL provides long term control and regulation of what supply?

  • Blood
  • Milk
  • Hormonal

12. What does the endocrine control drive?

  • Early stages of lactation and is important for the establishment of an ongoing potential for milk
  • Baby's ability to breastfeed effectively
  • Levels of prolactin in the mother's breasts

13. What is Feedback Inhibitor of Lactation (FIL)?

  • A protein in breastmilk
  • A hormone
  • An area in the brain

14. What is known as the mothering hormone

  • Progesterone
  • Prolactin
  • Oestrogen

15. What is the role of FIL?

  • Reduce of inhibit milk production in one affected breast
  • Reduce of inhibit milk production in both breasts
  • Increase milk supply in the one breast

16. Which of these is not a function of FIL?

  • Is the milk making hormone
  • Enables each breast to function separately
  • Causes the acini cells to ignore signals from prolactin when the breast is too full
  • protects the breast from the harmful effects of being overfull

17. What does NOT cause prolactin levels to rise?

  • sucking stimulation at the breast
  • Separation from baby
  • Skin-to-skin

18. Which hormone is known as the milk making hormone?

  • Oxytocin
  • Prolactin
  • Oestrogen

19. When do the receptor sites of the lactocytes (acini cells) open?

  • Following the delivery of the placenta
  • Before the baby is born
  • Between the birth of the baby and the delivery of the placenta

20. How does prolactin reach the receptor cells?

  • Via the bloodstream
  • Via the CNS
  • Via the PNS