POST-FARTUM EXTENDED MATERNAL-INFANT CONTACT: SUBSEQUENT MOTHERING AND CHILD HEALTH

Maternal Depression, Mothering and Child Development

Depression is a highly prevalent disorder of affect characterized by persistent sadness or anhedonia (an inability to experience pleasure), typically accompanied by additional symptoms such as negative cognitions (selfperceptions of failure, feelings of guilt, and/or suicidal thoughts), somatic dysfunction (fatigue, loss of appetite, fatigue, disturbances in sleep), and impairment in daily func...

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and child health.

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Maternal Smoking and Infant Health

Epidemiological studies indicate that smoking is responsible for a 150 to 250 gram reduction in birth rate and that smoking mothers are about twice as likely to have low-birth-weight babies (under 250 grams). Birth-weight is a is a measure of the baby’s maturity. Another measure of maturity is gestational age at birth (i.e. the time spent in the womb). Typically, smaller babies and babies born ...