To evaluate within-family differences in maternal affective behavior toward siblings, face-to-face interactions were observed between 39 mothers and their firstborn and second-born infants at 2 months of age. Mother and infant affect was coded on a 1-s time base with behavioral descriptors. Mothers were more positive with second-born infants, and second-born infants were more positive than were...

Background: Preterm birth and subsequent admission of the infant to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be distressing for parents and lead to their anxiety. The aim of this study was to evaluate maternal anxiety in mothers of infants admitted to the NICU and determine the characteristics associated with maternal anxiety....

Abstract Background The study aims to use the cross-lagged model and utilize data from Born in Shenyang Cohort Study characterize bidirectional associations of term-born infants’ neurodevelopment five domains physical growth early life. Method This consists 688 mother-child dyads Study. Infants’ anthropometric (weight length) development neurological outcomes (Gesell Development Scale) were mea...

There is no evidence regarding the best mode of delivery of the intrauterine growth restricted (IUGR) fetus. There are no studies comparing caesarean section (CS) with vaginal delivery (VD). It is not known how much additional hypoxaemia labour and VD might cause and effect outcome of the already compromised fetus. We performed a retrospective study with the aim to compare the immediate/short-t...

OBJECTIVE Long-term outcome, including school-age function, has been infrequently reported in infants born at ages as young as 23-26 weeks' gestation. The objective of this study is to report outcome on a large cohort of these infants to understand better the risks and factors that affect survival and long-term prognosis. METHODS Records from 1036 infants who were born between January 1, 1986...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of designation and volume of neonatal care at the hospital of birth on mortality and morbidity outcomes in very preterm infants in a managed clinical network setting. DESIGN A retrospective, population-based analysis of operational clinical data using adjusted logistic regression and instrumental variables (IV) analyses. SETTING 165 National Health Service n...

UNLABELLED The new guidelines from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and American Heart Association/American Academy of Pediatrics for newborn resuscitation underline that efficient ventilation is the key to a successful resuscitation of the newly born infant. Compared with the former guidelines published in 1999, the major changes are (i) less emphasis on using supplemental ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the direct healthcare cost of infants born to overweight or obese mothers to the National Health Service in the UK. DESIGN Retrospective prevalence-based study. SETTING Combined linked anonymised electronic data sets on a cohort of mother-child pairs enrolled on the Growing Up in Wales: Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) study. Infants were categorised according to ...

OBJECTIVES Biological modelling of routinely collected newborn screening data has emerged as a novel method for deriving postnatal gestational age estimates. Validation of published models has previously been limited to cohorts largely consisting of infants of white Caucasian ethnicity. In this study, we sought to determine the validity of a published gestational age estimation algorithm among ...

BACKGROUND Several studies indicate that HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) children have a high infectious morbidity. We previously reported an increased incidence of group B streptococcus (GBS) infections in HEU infants born in Belgium. METHODS This study was undertaken to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of all cause severe infections in HEU infants born in Belgium between 1985 and 2006, ...