Milk is an almost complete single food and the more important contributions milk and milk products make to our daily needs for energy, protein, calcium and certain vitamins are summarized in Table I. Besides its general role as an important component of the mixed diets eaten by most of the population, cow's milk has a special value in infant nutrition through serving as the source of most of th...

Methods 1. High Amplitude Sucking (HAS) a. measures infant sucking rate during exposure to auditory stimuli in three phases i. acquisition phase–infants increase their sucking rate during initial exposure ii. habituation phase–point where experimenter might change the auditory stimulus iii. dishabituation phase–period where infants react to the change/continued stimulus b. used with infants fro...

|Sir, l ' Sudden infant death syndrome i s the most common cause of death ! in infants frorn the first week to the first year of age. While in a few cases distinct and defined causes have been identified — for , example, defects in mitochondrial ß-oxidation (medium chain acylCoA dehydrogenase) — in most cases the pathomechanisms triggering the fatal event remain totally unknown. Since energy yi...

The need to transcribe infant sound productions from birth onwards by using universally applicable coding tools has been basic to the development of our AMSTIVOC classification system. In this system early infant vocalizations are described by means of a sensori-motor approach based on the source-filter model for speech production. We applied the AMSTIVOC classification system, among other thin...

Drawing from a domain specificity perspective, we assert that maternal sensitivity to infant distress cues is distinct from maternal sensitivity to non-distress cues. We review evidence from prior research demonstrating that the two constructs have more unshared than shared variance and that sensitivity to infant distress is a unique predictor of infants' early emotional well-being when both ty...

BACKGROUND Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic pollutants that were broadly used in the United States until the 1970s. Common exposure to PCBs, DDT, and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), the most stable metabolite of DDT, may influence children's neurodevelopment, but study results are not consistent. OBJE...

BACKGROUND Few studies have considered using environmental amenities to explain social health inequalities.Nevertheless, Green spaces that promote good health may have an effect on socioeconomic health inequalities. In developed countries, there is considerable evidence that green spaces have a beneficial effect on the health of urban populations and recent studies suggest they can have a posit...

The objective of this study was to show infant mortality differentials in different areas of Recife, analyzing the relationship between living conditions and mortality risk. An ecological study design compared infant mortality coefficients in 1995 with living conditions indicators obtained from the 1991 National Demographic Census. Information on the 770 infant deaths and 27,965 live births wer...

Abstract Background Many children in low- and middle-income countries lack the stimulation needed to support healthy growth development. Sensitive interactions between caregivers infants may promote movement behaviours infants, which could improve childhood However, reliable measures for such require testing South African context. The aim of this study was test acceptability feasibility headcam...

Dissociation is defined as a protective coping mechanism employed on a broad spectrum: from day-today ‘‘spacing out’’ to psychic numbing to multiplicity. A convergence of recent insights in traumatology, neuroscience, and developmental theory is reviewed. These findings all point to the importance of affect regulation in infant and child development and in the therapeutic relationship, where at...