Study of Infant Feeding Practices: Factors Associated with Faulty Feeding

Common Practices in Infant Feeding Common Practices in Infant Feeding

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...

Factors influencing infant feeding practices of mothers in Vancouver.

This study describes factors influencing infant feeding choices of 434 mothers with 9-month-old infants in Vancouver. Consistent with Social Cognitive Theory, both internal personal and socio-environmental factors influence infant feeding choices. Mothers attributed the choice to breastfeed primarily to personal choice, whereas the choice to formula feed was attributed to socio-environmental fa...

Infant feeding and care practices in the United States: results from the Infant Feeding Practices Study II.

aCenter for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland; bDivision of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; cPregnancy and Perinatology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Devel...

Infant feeding practices: a cause for concern.

Cases of infants with life-threatening nutritional deficiencies due to certain strict vegetarian or macrobiotic diets have recently been reported.'-7 It has been suggested that in some instances this should be regarded as a form of child abuse.' We have recently come across infants who have been severely ill as a result of similar nutritionally inadequate diets. During the past 12 months nine h...