Download or read book Exploring Infant Feeding Practices written by Elaine Anna Dolan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents' controlling feeding practices (restriction and pressure) lead to negative child outcomes, such as long-term self-regulation problems and obesity (Faith, Scanlon, Birch, Francis & Sherry, 2004). Yet, little is known about parents' practices when feeding solids to infants, a time when the feeding relationship is undergoing many changes and challenges. Research suggests that child and maternal factors are related to parents' feeding practices (e.g., Gross, Mendelsohn, Fierman & Messito, 2011). Furthermore, self-efficacy may be an important factor related to mothers' feeding behaviors. In Study 1, 24 mothers were observed feeding their 6-to 12-month-old infants ( M = 9.1 months; 42% boys). Mothers also completed a series of open-ended questions to explore behaviors that may not have occurred during mealtime observations. Findings from observed mealtimes highlighted specific feeding behaviors that mothers of infants use, including force feeding. Open-ended questions revealed additional controlling behaviors, such as limiting portion sizes. Based on these findings, new questionnaire items were created for Study 2 to measure infant feeding practices. In Study 2, 103 mothers of infants between 6 and 12 months ( M = 8.7 months; 47% boys) completed questionnaires to examine child and maternal factors associated with mother-reported controlling feeding practices, including maternal self-efficacy for feeding solids. Mothers' self-efficacy for feeding developmentally appropriate foods was negatively related to restriction for health, whereas self-efficacy for reading infant's hunger and satiation cues was positively related to mothers' use of restriction for health. Self-efficacy for feeding solids did not predict restriction for weight or pressure. Other maternal and child variables were related to these feeding practices.

Download or read book Infant and Young Child Feeding written by Fiona Dykes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Victoria Hall Moran and with a foreword from Gretel Pelto, explores in an integrated context the varied factors associated with infant and child nutrition, including global feeding strategies, cultural factors, issues influencing breastfeeding, and economic and life cycle influences

Download or read book Infant Feeding Practices written by Pranee Liamputtong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s natural... It’s unsightly... It’s normal... It’s dangerous. To breastfeed or not? For millions of women around the world, this personal decision is influenced by numerous social, cultural, and health factors. Infant Feeding Practices is the first book to delve into these factors from a global perspective, revealing striking similarities and differences from country to country. Dispatches from Asia, Australia, Africa, the U.K., and the U.S. explore as wide a gamut of salient issues affecting feeding practices as traditional beliefs about colostrums, “breast is best” campaigns, partner attitudes, workplace culture, direct government intervention, and the pressure to be a “good mother.” Throughout these informative pages, women are seen balancing innovation and tradition to nurture healthy, thriving babies. A sampling of topics covered: • Policy versus practice in infant feeding. • Infant feeding in the age of AIDS. • Managing the lactating body: the view from the U.S. • Motherhood, work, and feeding. • The effects of migration on infant feeding. • From breastfeeding tradition to optimal breastfeeding practice. Infant Feeding Practices is a first-of-its-kind resource for researchers and practioners in maternal and child health, public health, global health, and cultural anthropology seeking empirical findings and culturally diverse information on this sensitive issue.

Download or read book Infant and young child feeding written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Chapter on Infant and Young Child Feeding is intended for use in basic training of health professionals. It describes essential knowledge and basic skills that every health professional who works with mothers and young children should master. The Model Chapter can be used by teachers and students as a complement to textbooks or as a concise reference manual.

Download or read book Exploring Infant Feeding Variation and Decision Making written by Caitlin Elizabeth Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the infant feeding decisions "white middle class" mothers are making and how they negotiate any influencing factors. New Zealand has a strong history of institutional engagement with both motherhood and infant feeding. This local history, combined with global influences, creates a unique environment for mothers today. In particular there is a strong emphasis on "breast is best" and on promoting breastfeeding through anti-formula messages and cultural expectations. This has resulted in infant feeding becoming dichotomised and breastfeeding 'failures' being attributed to a lack of knowledge, support and/or economics. Using a focus group and semi-structured interviews (a total of 29 participants), I show not only why women choose the infant feeding practice they do, but elucidate some of the key factors that impact their decision making. I also explore the role of medicalisation in infant feeding, how much of an influence cultural messages have, and also the role of support. In exploring how educated women with access to resources negotiated the web of influences, I hoped to understand the potential broader implications for women in New Zealand. The women I interviewed were breastfeeding exclusively and largely unquestioningly. They saw breastfeeding as a significant part of "good motherhood", and were committed to breastfeeding regardless of issues that arose. There was an understanding of infant feeding, and of motherhood, as work. Women did not perceive themselves as making a choice; the internalisation of the breast is best message resulted in breastfeeding being the unquestioned "right thing". Infant feeding practices were conceptualised as a single either/or choice, rather than a process requiring renegotiation. Women position themselves in the centre of an assumed environment, which is shaped by cultural and health messages. These messages were unconsciously absorbed, and women utilise self-surveillance to create their identity as "good mothers" and align with the expectations of Intensive and Neoliberal Motherhood. By elucidating the practices of the women seen as the "norm", this thesis argues for an acceptance of flexibility in infant feeding practices and recommendations. Keywords: infant feeding; motherhood; decision making, mother infant dyad, New Zealand; medicalisation; surveillance; biocommunicability.

Download or read book Feeding Our Babies written by Jacqueline Vincent Priya and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the relationship between traditions of birth and traditions of breastfeeding around the world. It describes the variety of infant feeding patterns internationally and puts into a broader context the advice given to mothers in the United Kingdom and similar countries.

Download or read book Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture written by Victoria Hall Moran and published by Mark Allen Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This second edition discusses contemporary challenges and debates related to the short and longer-term effects of maternal and infant nutrition, and of the nature of the relationship between mother and infant as a consequence of nutritive and nurturing behaviour."--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Food Literacy written by Helen Vidgen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity. Eating is an everyday event that is part of everyone’s lives. There are many commentaries on the nature of these changes to what, where and how we eat and their socio-cultural, environmental, educational, economic and health consequences. Among this discussion, the term "food literacy" has emerged to acknowledge the broad role food and eating play in our lives and the empowerment that comes from meeting food needs well. In this book, contributors from Australia, China, United Kingdom and North America provide a review of international research on food literacy and how this can be applied in schools, health care settings and public education and communication at the individual, group and population level. These varying perspectives will give the reader an introduction to this emerging concept. The book gathers current insights and provides a platform for discussion to further understanding and application in this field. It stimulates the reader to conceptualise what food literacy means to their practice and to critically review its potential contribution to a range of outcomes.

Download or read book Infant Feeding Practices written by Pranee Liamputtong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s natural... It’s unsightly... It’s normal... It’s dangerous. To breastfeed or not? For millions of women around the world, this personal decision is influenced by numerous social, cultural, and health factors. Infant Feeding Practices is the first book to delve into these factors from a global perspective, revealing striking similarities and differences from country to country. Dispatches from Asia, Australia, Africa, the U.K., and the U.S. explore as wide a gamut of salient issues affecting feeding practices as traditional beliefs about colostrums, “breast is best” campaigns, partner attitudes, workplace culture, direct government intervention, and the pressure to be a “good mother.” Throughout these informative pages, women are seen balancing innovation and tradition to nurture healthy, thriving babies. A sampling of topics covered: • Policy versus practice in infant feeding. • Infant feeding in the age of AIDS. • Managing the lactating body: the view from the U.S. • Motherhood, work, and feeding. • The effects of migration on infant feeding. • From breastfeeding tradition to optimal breastfeeding practice. Infant Feeding Practices is a first-of-its-kind resource for researchers and practioners in maternal and child health, public health, global health, and cultural anthropology seeking empirical findings and culturally diverse information on this sensitive issue.

Download or read book A Philosophy of Infant Feeding written by Simon S. Levin and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2003 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO and UNICEF jointly developed this global strategy to focus world attention on the impact that feeding practices have on the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children. The strategy is the result of a comprehensive two-year participatory process. It is based on the evidence of nutrition's significance in the early months and years of life, and of the crucial role that appropriate feeding practices play in achieving optimal health outcomes. The strategy is intended as a guide for action; it identifies interventions with a proven positive impact; it emphasizes providing mothers and families the support they need to carry out their crucial roles, and it explicitly defines the obligations and responsibilities in this regards of governments, international organizations, and other concerned parties.

Download or read book Feeding Infants and Children from Birth to 24 Months written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommendations for feeding infants and young children have changed substantially over time owing to scientific advances, cultural influences, societal trends, and other factors. At the same time, stronger approaches to reviewing and synthesizing scientific evidence have evolved, such that there are now established protocols for developing evidence-based health recommendations. However, not all authoritative bodies have used such approaches for developing infant feeding guidance, and for many feeding questions there is little or no sound evidence available to guide best practices, despite the fact that research on infant and young child feeding has expanded in recent decades. Summarizing the current landscape of feeding recommendations for infants and young children can reveal the level of consistency of existing guidance, shed light on the types of evidence that underpin each recommendation, and provide insight into the feasibility of harmonizing guidelines. Feeding Infants and Children from Birth to 24 Months collects, compares, and summarizes existing recommendations on what and how to feed infants and young children from birth to 24 months of age. This report makes recommendations to stakeholders on strategies for communicating and disseminating feeding recommendations.

Download or read book A Mixed Methods Research Study to Understand Infant Feeding Practices and Inform Strategies to Improve Maternal Infant and Child Nutrition in Guinea a Biocultural Perspective written by Teresa Schwendler and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevalence of stunting (30%) and wasting (9%) among children under the age of five years (U5) in Guinea have seen little decline in the past decade. One contributor to the high prevalence of stunting and wasting among children U5 is poor diet quality. In 2018, less than half of children 6 -- 23 months consumed the recommended food groups (15%) and meals (25%) per day to meet their nutrient requirements. However, there has been little qualitative or quantitative research conducted over the past decade to explore the multilevel determinants of infant and young child (IYC) diets and growth outcomes in Guinea. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) conceptual framework theorizes the immediate (diet, care), underlying (food, practices, services), and enabling determinants (resources, norms, governance) determinants of maternal, infant, and young and child nutrition (MIYCN). However, the UNICEF framework does not provide a robust model for exploring the factors shaping IYC diets, an immediate determinant of nutritional status. However, the Ecological Model of Food and Nutrition (EMFN) has been used for over 50 years to explore the various factors influencing diets across contexts. In addition to immediate determinants such as diet, caregiver feeding style is an underlying determinant of IYC diets and nutritional status. However, there has been little work conducted across low-and-middle income-countries including Guinea to understand the relationship between caregiver feeding styles and IYC dietary quality. Finally, enabling determinants including programs and policies are upstream factors that shape IYC diets and nutritional status. UNICEF recommends intervening through water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), social protection, food, and health systems to improve IYC diets and growth outcomes. However, to our knowledge, no study has systematically explored what evidence-based program modalities across systems are being supported by policies or programs in Guinea. To better understand key immediate, underlying, and enabling determinants of IYC nutritional status, this study sought to explore the infant feeding practices and inform strategies to improve MIYCN in Guinea. To fill this research gap, our first study sought to understand what factors are associated with infant dietary diversity score (DDS) in Forécariah, Guinea. To assess and define factors that shape infant DDS, a dietary assessment and survey were administered to caregivers of indexed infants (6 -- 9 months). Then, to understand the factors shaping infant diets, 3-hour observations were conducted among indexed infants (n = 81) and interviews were conducted with caregivers (n = 34) and community leaders (n = 13). A stepwise linear regression was used to understand what factors were significantly associated with infant DDS. Textual data were then analyzed deductively using the EMFN to understand how different factors shape the feeding practices of caregivers who fed infants a more diverse diet from those who did not. Findings from our study revealed that food insecurity, maternal time, and feeding advice received through various channels (i.e., radio, interpersonal) shape caregiver feeding behaviors and infant diet. Factors found to be positively associated with infant dietary diversity scores include having access to water in the household, feeding infants the same foods as primary caregivers weekly, owning land for homestead food production, and infant age. Conversely, adhering to food taboos was negatively associated with infant dietary diversity score. Imported foods were symbolized as 'clean' and locally sourced foods were symbolized as 'unclean' caregivers who fed less diverse diets. Our second study sought to understand what caregiver feeding styles are being employed by indexed caregivers and how they relate to infant DDS in Forécariah, Guinea. To define caregiver feeding styles we carried out 3-hr observations of indexed infants (n = 81), Then, to understand how and why caregivers were employing these feeding styles we carried out interviews among a subset of indexed caregivers (n = 34). Quantitative data from direct observations were subjected to k-medoid cluster analysis and textual data were analyzed using content analysis. Findings from our study revealed that three distinct feeding styles were being employed in Forécariah, Guinea including responsive, forceful, and uninvolved. Most caregivers in our sample carried out responsive feeding behaviors but fed their infants the least diverse diets. Drivers of responsive, forceful, and uninvolved feeding styles included maternal time, caregiver trust in the infant's hunger and satiety cues, and cues associated with an infant being developmentally ready to self-feed, respectively. Our third study sought to understand how current policies and programs can be leveraged to improve MIYCN in Guinea. To understand the current policy and program environment, we conducted a narrative literature review of operating programs (i.e., 2019-2022) and policies across systems. Then, to understand what factors shape program implementation, we conducted semi-structured interviews with stakeholders (n = 20) across systems. Textual data were analyzed using a content analysis approach guided by the UNICEF systems framework and a nutrition implementation science framework. Findings revealed that most evidence-based program modalities across systems were being cited in policy (25/32) and program documents (28/32). Salient factors identified to be shaping programs during interviews included poor policy development, suboptimal funding, variable stakeholder technical knowledge, low provider-to-beneficiary ratios, substandard program planning, scale-up, and resources at the community level. However, the most salient factor discussed across domains was programming planning and scale-up which was namely due to duplication of activities, poor supply chains, funding-related constraints, and suboptimal integration of activities across systems and within systems. Findings from our study suggest that multilevel determinants shape infant diets in Forécariah but also MIYCN in Guinea at large. Food taboos identified in this study and intervention approaches that have been successful in shifting social norms in other contexts could be used to dismantle food taboos and improve infant DDS in Forécariah, Guinea. Findings from this research also indicate that policymakers in Guinea may also consider introducing guidelines against advertising of IYC foods in line with WHO guidance to improve infant DDS. Findings from our second study could be used to generate tailored messaging to encourage caregivers to feed responsively during mealtimes. Finally, findings from our third study could be used as a guide for stakeholders across systems in Guinea to leverage the integration of currently operating programs to improve MIYCN using a multisectoral approach.

Download or read book Feeding in the First Year of Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring Perceptions and Practices of Infant Feeding Among Women who Give Birth to Larger Birthweight Infants written by Pippa Davie and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Feeding of the Very Young an Approach to Determination of Policies written by International Advisory Group on Infant and Child Feeding and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Current international practices in child feeding are explored and areas of needed research are identified. Principles important in formulating guidelines for improved feeding practices also are discussed. Against a backdrop of severe malnutrition problems in developing countries, advisory group members suggest crucial factors to be considered in planning programs. A socioeconomic analysis is presented regarding limitations or constraints to breast feeding and artificial feeding among well-to-do and rural populations internationally. Specific suggestions for research are presented for biomedical problems, socioeconomic and cultural problems and research methodology.

Download or read book Infant Feeding Practices written by Jeannette Marie Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: