BACKGROUND Exclusive Breastfeeding (EBF) refers to the practice of feeding breast milk only, (including expressed breast milk) to infants; and excluding water, other liquids, breast milk substitutes, and solid foods. Inadequately breastfed infants are likely to be undernourished and have childhood infections. EBF knowledge and infant feeding practices have not been studied sufficiently in Sokot...

The 1996 welfare reform bill changed the nature of public assistance from an open-ended entitlement to a transitional program with work requirements and time limits. The emphasis on self-sufficiency and the expectation of work is based on the assumption that poor single mothers are similar in their status and functioning to the rest of the population. However, we find that their psychological s...

BACKGROUND In recent years, the creation of supportive environments for encouraging mothers to breastfeed their children has emerged as a key health issue for women and children. The provision of lactation rooms and breast pumping breaks have helped mothers to continue breastfeeding after returning to work, but their effectiveness is uncertain. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of...

This study compared aspects of the functioning of mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) to those of mothers without psychiatric disorder using two different conceptualizations of attachment theory. The Adult Attachment Interviews (AAIs) of 32 mothers were classified using both the Main and Goldwyn method (M&G) and the Dynamic-Maturational Model method (DMM). We found that mothers w...

Purpose: Working mothers are leading several industries, and they strive to balance work family. Mothers at face their biggest challenges live with constant guilt when leave children. Due this stressful lifestyle, working struggle regulate emotional health may exhaust themselves, breakdown, or burnout. They can manage chaos mindfulness. need mindfulness stay sane. Mindfulness protects against s...

according to the mother's key roles in bringing up emotional and cognitive abilities of mentally retarded children and respect to positive psychology in recent decades, this research is administered to assess the relation between mother's happiness level with cognitive- executive functions (i.e. attention, working memory, inhibition and planning) and facial emotional recognition ability as two ...

BACKGROUND The early childhood development is most crucial and the mother's care and attention is essential. The inevitable changes like women entering the work field have an effect on the child care and development. AIM To study the selected anthropometric indices of the children of employed and unemployed women. SETTINGS AND DESIGN This study was done in the urban slums of Guntur city by ...

OBJECTIVES Work characteristics and maternal education have both been associated with low birth weight (LBW) delivery. We sought to examine the relative contribution of these two factors to LBW delivery and determine whether ethnic/racial differentials in educational attainment and work characteristics might play a role in well-described disparities in LBW. METHODS Scores for work substantive...