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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?
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?
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