Sir—Florey etal. investigated the association between infant feeding and mental and motor development in first born singletons. The study population comprised 846 infants, of whom 592 attended for developmental assessment at age 18 months. The Bayley Scales of Infant Mental and Motor Development were used to assess the child's developmental status. Eight covariates included in the analysis were...

The association between adult obesity and increased risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases is well known. The observed rapid escalation of overweight and obesity in the past two decades is therefore a cause for great concern. The rising prevalence of childhood obesity is receiving greater attention because of its association with adult obesity and its complications. ...

Although studies have shown cue-based feeding can lead to earlier achievement of full oral feeding, the successful implementation of cue-based feeding has been constrained by the volume-driven culture, which has existed for many years in the NIC U. This culture was built on the notion that a "better" nurse is one who could "get more in," and infants who are "poor feeders" are ones who "can't ta...

Background: Prenatal care service is an important public health intervention in Ghana but its contribution to the adoption of healthy infant feeding behaviours remains unclear. This study was designed toassess the relationship between adequate prenatal care utilization and postpartum infant feeding behaviours. Methods: We used a cross-sectional design on a sample of 384 postpartum mothers who h...

While the addition of lime water to milk used as infant’s food has been common practice for many years, it has not been known just what changes the lime water produces, and as far 3s we know the subject has not been investigated from a purely chemical standpoint. The use of lime water in this connection has been based, first, upon the erroneous assumption that the acidity of COW’S milk is much ...

pages. But it has the grace of being light, wellwritten, and well-printed. Dr. Dennett's experience has been large, and he enters into the arena of infant literature with a book which will be of great use to the pediatrician as well as the general practitioner, for it is pre-eminently practical and deals with nearly every condition which one may meet with in temperate zones without hedging and ...

introduction: breastfeeding is an important principle in pediatric health. it decreases their mortality and protect them fromm diseases in the first 6-month of life. this study aimed to determined maternal knowledge and practice in mashhad city about breast-feeding in first 6 -month of infant's life.   materials and methods: this analytic study was conducted on 105 mothers who had a child ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to test a coding system, the Maternal-Infant Synchrony Scale (MISS), for assessing synchrony of feeding interaction between a mother and her preterm infant. The secondary aim was to describe mother and preterm infant synchrony during feeding and the change over time. METHODS A descriptive, longitudinal design using data collected during an earlier study w...