Background Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is an easy and emotional care that can reduce the mortality and morbidity in premature infants, but often the relationship between mother and her newborn is delayed due to some barriers. The aim of this study was to investigate perceived benefits and barriers of mothers in this regard. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 121 mo...

INTRODUCTION The maternal experience of having a young infant is often viewed through a negative lens focused on psychological distress due, in part, to a historical focus on identifying threats to prenatal, perinatal and postpartum well-being of women and infants. This report examines maternal appraisal of both positive and negative experiences during and after pregnancy and introduces a new s...

Many parents, caregivers and health professionals are faced with caring for an unhappy infant displaying symptoms associated with colic. Food allergies, gastrointestinal and behavioural factors have been suggested as possible causes. Infantile colic usually affects infants in the first few weeks of life and resolves itself before six months of age. It has been estimated that colic is prevalent ...

Background There is no known cause of colic and it has been suggested by some that colic does not exist. Whether this is true or not, many parents, caregivers and health professionals are faced with caring for an unhappy infant displaying symptoms associated with colic. Infantile colic usually affects infants in the first few weeks of life and resolves itself before six months of age. The preva...

Male black tufted-ear marmosets (Callithrix kuhlii) contribute to the rearing of their offspring. Here we evaluated predictions of hypotheses suggesting that (1) T and E2 influence infant-care behavior in male marmosets, (2) levels of T and E2 are modulated by paternal experience, and (3) paternal behavior and levels of T and E2 in male marmosets covary with stress. We observed the behavior of ...

INTRODUCTION Family, especially mother, is faced with numerous challenges by experiencing a premature birth. Since knowing about mother's efforts regarding prematurely born infant helps us in our comprehensive understanding of the impact of this incident on the family system and its performance. The present study was carried out to explore the mothers' strategies regarding prematurely born infa...

BACKGROUND Infant feeding and caregiving by adolescent girls and young women in rural Bangladesh remains relatively understudied despite high potential vulnerability of younger mothers and their children due to poverty and high rates of early marriage and childbearing. This key knowledge gap may hamper the effectiveness of maternal, infant and child health interventions not specifically tailore...

PURPOSE To compare the effects of recent intimate partner abuse on maternal and infant health in publicly versus privately insured pregnant women. DESIGN Exploratory descriptive analysis in 13 Massachusetts prenatal care sites from records of 2,052 women who had been screened during pregnancy for domestic violence. METHODS Clinicians screened pregnant women for domestic violence using the A...

  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...