The timing and strategy with which parents first introduce their infants to solid foods may be an important predictor of subsequent developmental outcomes. Recent years have seen a decline in the prevalence traditional parent-led feeding soft, puréed food rise infant-led complementary feeding. Although there has been some research espousing benefits for improving fussiness self-regulation, litt...

Previous studies have suggested that infant rapid weight change can be associated with an increased later in life. However, the trajectory early life over time and which childhood lifestyle behaviors may modify risk of not been characterized. Using our ongoing birth cohort study, we addressed these issues. Nine follow-up points (birth, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48 months) were used to calculate ...

Parents and professionals have often puzzled over the importance of early regulatory problems in young children and their impact on the developing child. Most normal young infants show irregularities in negotiating sleep cycles, digestion, and self-calming which usually resolve around six months of age. However, some infants and children show persistent problems in sleep, self-consoling, feedin...

A 2-year, 8-month-old boy was sent to the hospital by his pediatrician for an inpatient workup of fever of unknown origin. The child was born full term, had a normal newborn course, and was a healthy infant until he had a fever at 3 months of age due to influenza diagnosed by rapid in-office testing. This illness was managed as an outpatient, and the fever resolved after 2 days. However, the pe...

BACKGROUND Definitions and assessment methods of fussy/picky eating are heterogeneous and remain unclear.We aimed to identify an eating behavior profile reflecting fussy/picky eating in children and to describe characteristics of fussy eaters. METHODS Eating behavior was assessed with the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) in 4914 4-year olds in a population-based birth cohort study. ...

Silver Russell Syndrome (SRS) syndrome is an imprinting disorder involving low birth weight with complex genetics and diagnostics. Some rare SRS patients carry maternally inherited microduplications spanning the imprinted genes CDKN1C, PHLDA2, SLC22A18 and KCNQ1, suggesting that overexpression of one of more of these genes contributes to the SRS phenotype. While this molecular alteration is ver...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the development of television (TV) behaviors across the first 18 months of life and identifies maternal and infant predictors of infant TV exposure. METHODS We used longitudinal TV exposure, maternal sociodemographic, and infant temperament data from 217 African-American mother-infant pairs participating in the Infant Care and Risk of Obesity Study. Longitudinal ...