OBJECTIVE We examined the predictors and consequences of mother-child bed-sharing at 1, 2, and 3 years of age in a racially/ethnically and geographically diverse sample of low-income families across the United States. METHODS We analyzed data from 944 low-income families who had children assessed at 1, 2, 3, and 5 years of age. RESULTS Mothers who were Hispanic and black were more likely to...

In this study we investigated maternal Helicobacter felis (H. felis) infection status to determine the potential of maternal transmission. Pregnant Beagle dogs were infected experimentally with H. felis. Following the experimental design, the stools of the mother and litters were isolated and assessed for transmission of H. felis at parturition day, 1-week old age and 6-week old age respectivel...

The causes of childhood overweight are numerous and inter-related. The mother-child relationship is of great significance for the child's health. Previous studies have found patterns of dysfunctional interaction in families with obese children. Therefore, development of childhood overweight could be due to the mother-child relationship. The aim of this study was to investigate how, and to what ...

It has been discussed in the literature that the presence of kin, particularly the presence of a women's own mother or her mother in law, may have fertility effects. We aimed to examine the effects of the presence of a woman's own or her husband's mother in the household on a woman's fertility in terms of number of children on a broad basis by analysing census data of over two million married w...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects on mother to child transmission of the timing and type of prenatal treatment, taking into account gestational age at maternal seroconversion. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING European centres offering prenatal screening for toxoplasmosis. POPULATION Children born to a cohort of pregnant women with toxoplasma infection. METHODS We determined the...

Regardless of the age unwed mother, pregnancy out wedlock is considered as sinful, violation norm and disgrace to family in most Asian countries including Malaysia. Although Malaysian society authority are concerned on this matter, however, people rarely talk about topic public due shame stigma. Owing that, little known perspectives marginalized group their life experiences. The shared data wer...

BACKGROUND Human milk is the natural food for full term infants and is the most appropriate milk for the human infants. The objective of the study was to determine the frequency of common reasons of failure of exclusive breastfeeding in children less than six months of age. METHODS It was a cross-sectional study conducted at Rawal institute of health sciences (RIHS) from March to October 2013...

Long-lived proteins have been implicated in age-associated decline in metazoa, but they have only been identified in extracellular matrices or postmitotic cells. However, the aging process also occurs in dividing cells undergoing repeated asymmetric divisions. It was not clear whether long-lived proteins exist in asymmetrically dividing cells or whether they are involved in aging. Here we ident...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether a supportive nursing intervention that promoted kangaroo holding of healthy preterm infants by their mothers during the early weeks of the infant's life facilitated coregulation between mother and infant at 6 months of age. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-five mother/infant dyads with mean gestational age at birth of 33 weeks. Fifty percen...