Background and Objective: Achievement of motor skills is an important part of childhood development. There are some scales that commonly used for preschool-aged children including Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, 2nd edition (PDMS-2). A cross sectional study designed to compare motor skills of high risk and normal infants of 3 to 6 months of age. Methods: In this case control study, ...

Humoral immunity protects against severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease, but the range and magnitude of antibody responses in RSV-naive children after RSV infection have not been completely defined. We evaluated RSV-neutralizing antibody and immunoglobulin G responses to RSV F and G glycoproteins in 65 RSV-naive Navajo and White Mountain Apache children aged 0-24 months who were hosp...

Sleep problems in childhood have been found to be associated with memory and learning impairments, irritability, difficulties mood modulation, attention behavioral problems, hyperactivity impulsivity. Short sleep duration has overweight obesity. This research describes the protocol of a intervention planned promote healthier infants. Methods: The study is 1:1 parallel group single-blinded rando...

Caregiver-infant interaction through touch was shown to have long-term effects on child’s cognitive development, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. Our aim is to investigate how affective touch (slow gentle caressing) affects arousal states in young infants. Previous work showed that slow-touch decreases heart rate in 9-month-old infants. We tested two groups of 6-months-old (n=26) and 9...

BACKGROUND Latino children are at increased risk for mirconutrient deficiencies and problems of overweight and obesity. Exposures in pregnancy and early postpartum may impact future growth trajectories. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relationship between prenatal and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms experienced in pregnancy and infant growth from birth to 2 years of age in a cohort of Latin...

Experiments investigated whether infants infer that a hidden, freely moving object will move continuously and smoothly. Infants aged 6 and 10 months, like the 4-month-old infants in previous experiments, inferred that the object's path would be connected and unobstructed, in accord with the principle of continuity. In contrast, 4- and 6-month-old infants did not appear to infer that the object'...

Humans first start to perceive the relationship between object size and mass in simple collision events at about 5.5–6.5 months of age. They this link by attending moving anticipating a greater displacement after with large lesser small object. The results aforementioned experiment is based on infants’ responses propelling stationary same distance (long distance). It unknown how infants would i...

OBJECTIVE To assess the energy and nutrient intakes of healthy infants from low-income families and to compare intakes with current recommendations. DESIGN We interviewed mother-infant pairs longitudinally when the infants were 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months old. Food intake data were obtained by 24-hour dietary recalls. Selected nutrient intakes were calculated and compared with the Recommend...

Background: Anemia is one of the most important nutritional disorders among children and adolescent in Iran and developing countries. Despite the possibility of anemia prevention, there is a high proportion of this problem in school children and especially infants. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of anemia in 6 to 12 months old children. Methods: This was a cross-sec...