Three more URI College of Nursing students have joined Ph.D. student Emily Haynes as recipients of Cynthia & Thomas Sculco Graduate Nursing Research scholarships, which cover much of their expenses, allowing them to focus exclusively on their research and studies.<\/p>\n
Today we take a look at one of the students benefitting from the gift from alumnus Cynthia Sculco \u201965 and her husband Thomas, and the research she has planned.<\/p>\n
Jane Lazar Tucker<\/strong><\/p>\n Hometown<\/em>: Framingham, MA<\/p>\n Education track<\/em>: PhD<\/p>\n Previous education<\/em>: MS, public health, Boston University; BSN, Western Governor\u2019s University; BS, psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n Experience<\/em>: Lactation consultant at Brigham & Women\u2019s Hospital; former labor and delivery nurse.<\/p>\n Research<\/em>: Tucker\u2019s research will focus on breastfeeding, with a public health perspective. She aims to increase both the incidence of breastfeeding, particularly in certain populations in which the practice is not popular, and the length of time a mother breast feeds her baby.<\/p>\n Breastfeeding has obvious benefits to the infant, providing a natural, nutritionally perfect food for a newborn, which passes on many immunities from mother to child, benefits speech and development of the child, and helps prevent childhood obesity, among other benefits. Tucker recommends exclusive breastfeeding for at least the first six months, with breast milk continuing to be the main source of nutrition for at least a year. The practice also benefits mothers, \u201cempowering them in their new parenting role. Breastfeeding is a really important tool, something that can lead to long-term parental confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the obvious benefits, many mothers do not breastfeed, sometimes through personal choice, but often because of societal influences. In some populations, breastfeeding is not traditional or culturally acceptable. Even in populations that understand the benefits of breastfeeding, mothers often face community backlash for simply feeding their children.<\/p>\n \u201cIn our culture, breastfeeding is still not particularly acceptable. Women should be able to feed their babies wherever they want, but that\u2019s not a given,\u201d Tucker said. \u201cWomen are shamed for breastfeeding in public, or for breastfeeding too long, as if it is somehow a shameful thing. Women can breastfeed for two years, two and a half years; it\u2019s really up to them. For the nutritional benefits, all the evidence is there for breastfeeding being the primary source of nutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three more URI College of Nursing students have joined Ph.D. student Emily Haynes as recipients of Cynthia & Thomas Sculco Graduate Nursing Research scholarships, which cover much of their expenses, allowing them to focus exclusively on their research and studies. Today we take a look at one of the students benefitting from the gift from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":19223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19457,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222\/revisions\/19457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}