Thank you for the privilege of commenting on David Haig’s interesting and timely proposal ‘Troubled sleep: night waking, breastfeeding, and parent– offspring conflict’. Haig’s main hypothesis, written quite superbly, is a simple one. He argues that frequent night waking to breastfeed poses a significant challenge to mothers sleep and is the infant’s way of prolonging lactational amenorrhea. Spe...

Background: Postpartum depression has negative effects on mother, child and family. Regarding the side effects of antidepressants and because of contradictory results on the effects of herbal medicines, the present meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of herbal medicines in treatment of postpartum depression and materna...

         Combination of congenital esophageal atresia and subsequent hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is a rare condition which occurs in early infancy. The underlying etiology and pathophysiology of this association still remains unclear. In this paper we report a unique case of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, for the first time, which occurred in an infant who underwent surgery for type I esophag...

This article describes findings from a project conducted in Western Australia (Mental Health Commission WA, 2015) that investigated the education and training needs of the Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health (I/ECMH) workforce. We examined international training programs and models of delivery in infant mental health, including a review of the current training available in Australia. Data coll...

Infant psychology has heavily drawn on the Violation-of-Expectation (VoE) method. In this piece, I analyse assumptions that go into VoE method by comparing it with other looking time measures. Reviewing key arguments in literature, argue relies too many questionable assumptions, its conceptual foundations are thin, and findings empirically not conclusive. Theoretical inferences based thus specu...

Objectives: Premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are exposed to environmental risks that may cause developmental problems i. The present study aimed to investigate the predictive effect of individual and environmental factors on the motor performance of low birth weight preterm infants. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in the neonatal clinic of Shahid A...

Mixing, abduction and illegal adoption of infant is a global challenge and the research done to solve this problem is minimal. Traditional methods of biometric and non biometric techniques have their own limitations and fail to provide required level of security. The task of face recognition has been actively researched in recent year and automatic face recognition of infant is not reported in ...