this one year retrospective study was conducted in mirza kuchak khan maternity hospital, tehran, 1989-1990, to compare complications of pregnancy in adolescent (below 20 years old ) and young adult (20-24 years old) mothers. the results were as follows: 14.4% of all the deliveries during the period of study were adolescent mothers. the proportions of the following complications were higher in t...

BACKGROUND Chemicals with endocrine-disrupting abilities may act as obesogens and interfere with the body's natural weight-control mechanisms, especially if exposure occurs during prenatal life. OBJECTIVE We examined the association between prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and subsequent obesity at 5 and 7 y of age. DESIGN...

BACKGROUND Levels of paid employment in two parent and lone parent families have increased in the UK but evidence of its impact on child socioemotional behaviour is limited and inconsistent. METHODS We conducted a longitudinal analysis using the first four sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study (9 months, 3 years, 5 years and 7 years) to investigate the influence of family employment trajector...

This study aims at exploring Korean mothers' belieft on the development of emotion of their children. In specijic, sensitivity and matern al reactions to their children's both negative and positive emotion expressions were explored. Further, associations among maternal sensitivity, matern al reactions and child emotion regulation were examined. A total of 100 Korean mothers whose children were ...

An investigation was made to study the efficacy of dosage and time of administration in maternal vaccination. Mothers of nile tilapia were vaccinated by intraperitoneal injection with adjuvant-heat killed Streptococcus iniae at one and two weeks after spawning at the dosages of 0,2 ml/kg and 0,4 ml/kg body weight. Unvaccinated mothers were used as control. Agglutinating antibody titers in the b...

Mothers' representations of their infants may influence early development of emotional self-regulation. This study examined the associations between characteristics of mothers' (N = 100) narratives about their 7-month-old infants, maternal depression, and their infants' affect regulation during the Still Face procedure. Findings showed that (1) mothers' representations were linked with individu...

introduction: it is well known that one of the non-organic causes of failure to thrive is the lack of knowledge in mothers regarding feeding habits and this factor can be prevented by training. the purpose of the present study was to find the level of mother’s knowledge regarding feeding habits of infants and its relationship with some ethiological factors in those who are supported by communit...

Parenting responsiveness and over-reactivity were assessed among 25 mothers of 7-9-year-old sons with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and oppositional behavior (Oppositional Defiant, OD), 24 mothers of sons with ADHD only, and 38 mothers of nonproblem sons. Responsiveness was observed during mother-son play and clean-up interactions and over-reactivity was assessed using self-re...

1. Milk productions and 7 d dietary records were determined on twenty-seven mothers who had been breast-feeding for 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 or 15 months. 2. The mean milk productions for each group of mothers was 1 . 87, 1 . 238, 0 . 884, 0 . 880 and 0 . 951 kg/24 h at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 months of lactation respectively. There was no significant difference between two milk determination 3--7 d apart ...

OBJECTIVE To study the changes in composition of preterm milk till 6 months of age. METHODS Milk samples from 33, 19, 7 and 12 lactating mothers (delivered <34 weeks) were analyzed on days 7, 28, 90 and 180, respectively. RESULTS Triglyceride and sodium concentrations increased significantly with time and protein concentration decreased significantly over 180 days. Sodium (P=0.02) and trigl...