Maternal nutrition and optimal infant feeding practices: executive summary

Interventions for Feeding and Nutrition in Cerebral Palsy Executive Summary

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a “group of disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that is attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, cognition, communication, perception, and/or behaviour, and/or by a seizure disorde...

Maternal HIV status and infant feeding practices among Ugandan women.

To describe the infant feeding practices in the general population in Uganda, and to assess the impact of maternal HIV status on these practices, a questionnaire was administered to women attending the follow-up clinics for child vaccination. Among the mothers who were still breastfeeding at the time of interview (N=838), 61.4% of the HIV-infected women had planned to breastfeed for a maximum o...

Common Practices in Infant Feeding Common Practices in Infant Feeding

Effect of nutrition education of mothers on infant feeding practices.

OBJECTIVE To assess current infant feeding practices (IFP) in a relocated slum, to identity the lacunae, to outline, implement, and evaluate the gain in awareness and IFP followed by mothers. METHODS Thirty-five mothers of infants aged 5-19 months were interviewed. Based on lacunae, Nutrition Education (NE) was imparted to mothers over two months. Tools used were individual counseling, partic...

Do early infant feeding practices vary by maternal ethnic group?

OBJECTIVE To examine UK country and ethnic variations in infant feeding practices. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Infants enrolled in the Millennium Cohort Study, born between September 2000 and January 2002. SUBJECTS A total of 18 150 natural mothers (11 286 (8207 white) living in England) of singleton infants. OUTCOME MEASURES Breast-feeding initiation, breast-feeding discontinuation an...