The current study examined associations between maternal posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and infant emotional reactivity and emotion regulation during the first year of life in a primarily low-income, urban, ethnic/racial minority sample of 52 mother-infant dyads. Mothers completed questionnaires assessing their own trauma exposure history and current PTSD and depressive symptoms ...

OBJECTIVE To describe infant feeding practices in rural Senegal in relation to age and nutritional status. The main hypothesis to be tested was whether mothers modulate feeding in response to growth and nutritional status of their infants. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey using qualitative 24-h recalls and lifetime recalls to assess feeding practices, and using weight and recumbent length meas...

As part of a community-based, group-randomized, controlled trial of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) in an area with intense malaria transmission in western Kenya, a birth cohort (n = 833) was followed monthly until the age of 24 months to determine the potential beneficial and adverse effects of reduced malaria exposure during pregnancy and infancy. Malaria transmission and morbidity were c...

Abstract Background As n‐3 long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and probiotics possess immunomodulatory properties, theoretically they could lower the risk of allergic diseases. But their effects remain controversial. We aimed to study fish oil separately or in combination from early pregnancy onwards diseases infants. Methods In this double‐blind trial, women ( n = 439) pregnancies were rand...

abstract background and objective: there have been concerns over possible association between mercury and neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants. in this study we aimed to determine whether blood levels of mercury are above safe values in iranian infants or not. materials and methods:  a total of 85 infants (0, 2, 4 and 6 months old) were enrolled in this study. all of them received vaccines ac...

Feeding patterns and practices during the first year of life are very important for growth, development, morbidity. WHO recommends infants exclusively breastfed in six months , then begin complementary foods that nutritionally adequate, safe appropriately fed from 6 to 24 meet needs a growing baby.This study is systematic review literature by searching five e-databases namely Scopus, Science Di...

BACKGROUND Infants <6 months old with influenza are at risk for adverse outcomes. Our objective was to compare influenza outcomes in infants <6 months old born to women who did and did not report influenza vaccine during pregnancy. METHODS The study included all women who delivered from 12/2005 to 3/2014 at Intermountain facilities and their infants. Influenza outcomes included infant influen...

A growing body of literature has begun to explore social attention in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with hopes of identifying early differences that are associated with later ASD or other aspects of development. The present study used eye-tracking to familiar (mother) and unfamiliar (stranger) faces in two groups of 6-month-old infants: infants with no family h...