Methods of infant feeding

Chinese Methods of Infant Feeding

In any attempt to improve the dietary of a community, it is preferable to evolve from existing practices rather than indiscriminately to substitute foreign ones. It is obvious, then, that these indigenous practices must be known and preferably understood. Mere descriptions alone are often of interest, but their interest and value are enhanced when, as frequently is the case, domestic economies ...

Infant Feeding Practices Study II: study methods.

OBJECTIVE Our goal is to describe the methods used in the Infant Feeding Practices Study II (IFPS II), a study of infant feeding and care practices throughout the first year of life. Survey topics included breastfeeding, formula and complementary feeding, infant health, breast-pump use, food allergies, sleeping arrangements, mother's employment, and child care arrangements. In addition, mothers...

Social Contexts of Infant Feeding and Infant Feeding Decisions.

BACKGROUND Infant feeding takes place within a network of social relationships. However, the social context in which infant feeding advice is received remains underresearched. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the social contexts of infant feeding by examining individual and relationship characteristics of mothers and network members associated with advice to exclusively b...

Infant Feeding

This new volume on Infant Feeding is based on a course of lectures given to the students of Rush Medical College, and it is partly due to a demand on their part that the treatise is written. In its preparation the writer has endeavoured to bring our knowledge of the scientific processes that underlie infant feeding up to the present, and to apply these principles in such a way that they can be ...

Infant Feeding