Maternal and infant factors associated with reasons for introducing solid foods

Feeding the Allergic Infant: Introducing Solid Foods

Prevalence and reasons for introducing infants early to solid foods: variations by milk feeding type.

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of, and mothers' self-reported reasons for, introducing solid foods to infants earlier than recommended (aged <4 months) and the variation in reasons for early introduction by milk feeding type. METHODS The study included 1334 mothers who participated in the national longitudinal Infant Feeding Practices Study II (2005-2007). Monthly 7-day food-frequency qu...

Prevalence and Reasons for Introducing Infants Early to Solid Foods: Variations by Milk Feeding Type

OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of, and mothers’ self-reported reasons for, introducing solid foods to infants earlier than recommended (aged ,4 months) and the variation in reasons for early introduction by milk feeding type. METHODS: The study included 1334 mothers who participated in the national longitudinal Infant Feeding Practices Study II (2005–2007). Monthly 7-day food-frequency qu...

Maternal Risk Factors Associated with Fetal and Infant Mortality

Maternal chronic medical conditions, infectious diseases, psychiatric conditions, parental and environmental exposures, and psychosocial stressors have an established impact on fetal and neonatal health. Although countless studies have shown relationships between maternal risk factors and low-birth weight, pre-term birth, and fetal and infant morbidity (e.g. reduced apgar scores), fewer have de...

Maternal, infant and social factors associated with birthweight.

IN 1900, the Infant Mortality Rate (I.M.R.) in Belfast was 153 per 1000 livebirths (Elwood, 1973). By 1971, the rate had fallen to 26 per 1000 (Registrar General's Report, 1973). This figure is, however, one of the highest in any city of comparable size in the United Kingdom. The I.M.R. in Birmingham in that year was 20 per 1000, in Bristol it was 17 and in Stoke on Trent 16, while even Teeside...