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 Bottle Feeding written by Alison K. Ventura and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bottle-feeding is a ubiquitous aspect of infant feeding, yet bottle-feeding caregivers report a lack of support and access to evidence-based advice related to healthy bottle-feeding practices. This gap is due, in part, to a greater emphasis placed on breastfeeding support and promotion. Given a large and growing body of research illustrating associations between bottle-feeding and a number of health issues - such as overfeeding, rapid weight gain, and dental caries - the lack of advice and support for healthy bottle-feeding practices is concerning. To this end, this book aims to illustrate the state of the science related to bottle-feeding practices, caregiver perceptions, and related health outcomes. Based on this evidence, this book also provides practical, pragmatic advice to ensure that practitioners, researchers, and other professionals that work with families with young infants can best support bottle-feeding caregivers and promote the healthy growth and development for bottle-feeding infants. (Nova)"--
Download or read book Bottle feeding written by Alison K. Ventura and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bottle-feeding is a ubiquitous aspect of infant feeding, yet bottle-feeding caregivers report a lack of support and access to evidence-based advice related to healthy bottle-feeding practices. This gap is due, in part, to a greater emphasis placed on breastfeeding support and promotion. Given a large and growing body of research illustrating associations between bottle-feeding and a number of health issues – such as overfeeding, rapid weight gain, and dental caries – the lack of advice and support for healthy bottle-feeding practices is concerning. To this end, this book aims to illustrate the state of the science related to bottle-feeding practices, caregiver perceptions, and related health outcomes. Based on this evidence, this book also provides practical, pragmatic advice to ensure that practitioners, researchers, and other professionals that work with families with young infants can best support bottle-feeding caregivers and promote the healthy growth and development for bottle-feeding infants. (Nova)"--
Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
Download or read book Breast Practices written by Elizabeth Lorraine Fox and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current strategies promoting breastfeeding often fail to account for the intra-cultural variation that exists among women. Understanding such variation is essential to informing and delivering more relevant, timely and context-sensitive breastfeeding support. In this dissertation, we explored intra-cultural variation among HIV-infected mothers with regard to (i) the scope and content of infant feeding messages they receive, (ii) their perceptions and prioritizations of those messages, and (iii) how those perceptions and prioritizations changed over time with breastfeeding experience. We used elicitation techniques for cultural domain analysis including free listing, pile sorting, rating and semi-structured interviews to discover patterns of interpretation of infant feeding messages at Les Centres GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We used nonparametric statistics to provide a rigorous description of the significance of differences that emerged. We found that mothers received many different infant feeding messages, including both WHO- and culturally-generated infant feeding recommendations. Salient messages for health workers' poorly correlated to those of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected mothers, whereas salient messages for both mothers' groups highly correlated to one another. We also noted that infant feeding messages focused heavily on infant health outcomes and not on maternal outcomes. In the early postpartum period, we found numerous gaps and tensions in breastfeeding management at individual and systems levels. Many mothers were unprepared for the delay of breastmilk letdown and physical discomfort associated with breastfeeding. They also faced conflicting forces and experiences with regard to provision of prelacteals and early breastfeeding management. Finally, our findings about the perceptions and prioritizations of infant feeding messages reflected shared cultural knowledge and exhibited subtle time-dependent variations in mothers' perceptions and prioritizations over time, especially in the first month postpartum. Our findings highlight the complex infant feeding environment in which mothers exist and the challenges they face, especially early postpartum, in negotiating competing perspectives, interests and conflicting messages concerning breastfeeding. The results reported in this dissertation challenge current approaches to breastfeeding promotion to be more sensitive to the contexts of mothers, the actionable barriers affecting their practice, and the variation and changes that occur in their perceptions about infant feeding as a result of their breastfeeding experiences.
Download or read book Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organisations written by Sir Trisha Greenhalgh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a systematic review on how innovations in health service practice and organisation can be disseminated and implemented. This is an academic text, originally commissioned by the Department of Health from University College London and University of Surrey, using a variety of research methods. The results of the review are discussed in detail in separate chapters covering particular innovations and the relevant contexts. The book is intended as a resource for health care researchers and academics.
Download or read book The Mother infant Dyad Study written by Jennifer Jean Helvey and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Inappropriate infant-feeding practices linked to excessive, rapid, early weight gain, are potentially powerful intervention points for reducing risk of later obesity. Understanding how and why these behaviors begin is currently the topic of much research. Because breastfeeding has been found to be somewhat protective against early rapid gain, and because low-income, Southeastern U.S. populations are significantly less likely to initiate and maintain breastfeeding, it is critical to focus efforts in these populations. Grounded theory methodology provides the optimal theoretical underpinnings for exploring development of these practices. Research Objective: The objective was to explore, using grounded theory methodology, the set of interactions between mothers and infants that may influence development of feeding practices, and to do so among a low-income, primiparous sample in the Southeastern U.S. Methods: A total of 15 interviews were included in the final sample. Using grounded theory methodology, participant responses to in-depth phone interviews were analyzed for major emergent themes and concepts and a theoretical model proposed. Per grounded theory protocol, recruitment, data collection, analysis, and model development occurred simultaneously throughout the course of the study. Results: 'Mother-Infant Communication Dynamic' emerged as the central phenomenon. Main themes supporting the central phenomenon included: 1) 'Perceived Infant Development and Communication Capability'; 2) 'Primary Maternal Focus Driving Response'; and 3) 'Resulting Feeding Practices'. Discussion/ Implications for Nutrition Educators: The theoretical model captured the experiences, perceptions, and motivating factors influencing maternal response to infant cues and behaviors. Constant comparative analysis and model development during the theoretical coding phase revealed supporting concepts that emerged temporally related to infant age and maternal perception of infant development and communication capabilities from birth to 12 months. The central phenomenon, illustrated with a visual model, suggests a communication pattern developed over the first year of life, culminating in the maternal perception of 'Speaking the Same Language'. The mother-infant communication pattern swiftly becomes synced and potentially difficult to change. Importantly, this communication pattern, though synced, may not always be the result of accurate maternal interpretation of infant cues and behaviors. If communication patterns result in inappropriate infant-feeding practices, early intervention is likely to be of greatest benefit in reducing these behaviors and their associated negative health outcomes.
Download or read book Roles Perceptions and Control of Infant Feeding Among Low income Fathers in East Tennessee written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTION: Introduction of solid foods before the recommended age of 4-6 months is a common practice in the United States, and appears to be especially prevalent among infants who are enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Currently, little is known about how fathers influence early infant feeding decisions, outside of the decision to breast- or formulafeed. The purpose of this study was to explore how fathers perceive the role they play in feeding and caring for their infants. METHODS: Participants were 21 male-caregivers, who were fathers or partners of the mothers of WIC income-eligible infants residing in two rural East Tennessee counties. In-depth, audio-taped telephone interviews were completed. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed according to standard grounded theory procedures to identify emergent concepts. These concepts were explored and linked together to become themes. RESULTS: Three themes emerged: 1) fathers' roles; 2) fathers' perceptions; 3) and control. Concepts within the theme of "fathers' roles" included physical and emotional support for both mother and infant, validation of maternal decisions, and financial support. In this study, fathers' perceptions were primarily shaped by their own experiences, advice from those with experience, and information sought by the fathers. The theme of control appears to be the linkage between the fathers' attempts to modify infant behavior and infants' responses. CONCLUSIONS: A final conceptual model was created to explain the inter-related nature of the themes and may be helpful to those who work with fathers and/or families of new infants.
Download or read book Perceptions of Infant Feeding Practices written by Adrianne Kate Griebel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infant Feeding Practices written by Pranee Liamputtong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 0 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 Belief Systems of Jamaican Mothers Regarding Bottle Supplementation of Breastfed Infants written by Christine G. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International health literature clearly describes the importance of breastfeeding for children''s health. The risks of bottle feeding in impoverished and unhygenic environments are also widely documented. Gastroenteritis, one of the most common problems associated with bottle feeding in the Third World, is the leading cause of death for Jamaican children under five years old. Studies of infant feeding practices in Jamaica indicate that most mothers provide bottle supplements to their breastfed infants. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the belief systems of Jamaican mothers regarding breast- and bottle feeding. A flexible discussion guide was developed to focus attention on the research questions. The guide was used during disucssions with groups of six to nine mothers, and data were collected through these audio-taped discussions. In order to explore the culturally rooted beliefs and subjective perceptions of participants, candid and informal dialogue was encouraged among the women. The fifty mothers who participated in this qualitative study were selected by community-based Jamaican organizations in urban and rural locations. Data were analyzed by categorizing responses transcribed from the recorded discussions. Themes within these broad categories were then identified. A comparison of the concepts identified through this process with the infant feeding guidelines established by the Jamaican Ministry of Health formed the basis for the discussion of the study's implications. Suggestions for future research are provided and recommendations for implementing breastfeeding education in maternal and child health clinics are described. The concluding discussion explores possibilities for expanding breastfeeding promotion efforts in Jamaica and considers this health issue within a larger historical, cultural and socioeconomic context.
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 Only Mothers Know written by Dana Raphael and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-04-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Mothers Know is a very good, indeed a consummate, summary of research, discussion, and controversy, and it is also a very levelheaded as well as compassionate appeal to common sense, to valid cultural experience, and to the realism of Third World modernization. Raphael's project has come a long way from the passionate concern of the early days of the rediscovery of breastfeeding and of female wisdom. Such concern still guides her, of course and righly, but it is tempered (and honored) by her balancing of the politics and faddism of the movement she put into motion so long ago with the realities of the traditions and resources of women in the changes and the calculations of the modern world. She's written us a saga of survival and devotion that must not be missed, either by mothers and their doulas or by doctors, or by an educated, independent public. Conrad Arensberg, Columbia University
Download or read book Classic Grounded Theory written by Judith A. Holton and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Grounded Theory: Applications With Qualitative and Quantitative Data provides practical “how to” guidance for doing grounded theory (GT) using the classic approach articulated by Barney Glaser. Authors Judith A. Holton and Isabelle Walsh emphasize the philosophical flexibility of classic GT as a “full package” approach that can be applied to any study and any type of data where the goal is to discover and generate a conceptually integrated theory. Drawing on the experiences of novice researchers who have participated in GT troubleshooting seminars, the book provides step-by-step guidance on undertaking a research study that stays true to the classic GT practice paradigm.
Download or read book Infant Feeding written by John Worobey and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although infant feeding may be considered the primal form of motherinfant interaction, its treatment as a worthy subject of scientific investigation has only recently ascended to a position of importance. The reasons for our current interest are varied and important. For example, over the past fifty years the methods for studying feeding have improved, whether one speaks of analysing the composition of milk or the synchrony of the dyadic give-and-take during a feeding. Secondly, with breastfeeding rates having risen dramatically recently, the correlates of this societal change are undeniably of increased empirical interest. Finally, the current child obesity epidemic has propelled infant feeding to the forefront of the variety of public health strategies that will be needed to slow this crisis. The contributors to the present volume are all well-established researchers in the area of mother-infant interactions that surround infant feeding. With a mixture of theoretical underpinnings, methodological advances, and samples of current research, this book should serve as a useful reference for scientists and practitioners interested in the behavioral and health issues that surround infant feeding.
Download or read book Preterm Birth written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing prevalence of preterm birth in the United States is a complex public health problem that requires multifaceted solutions. Preterm birth is a cluster of problems with a set of overlapping factors of influence. Its causes may include individual-level behavioral and psychosocial factors, sociodemographic and neighborhood characteristics, environmental exposure, medical conditions, infertility treatments, and biological factors. Many of these factors co-occur, particularly in those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. While advances in perinatal and neonatal care have improved survival for preterm infants, those infants who do survive have a greater risk than infants born at term for developmental disabilities, health problems, and poor growth. The birth of a preterm infant can also bring considerable emotional and economic costs to families and have implications for public-sector services, such as health insurance, educational, and other social support systems. Preterm Birth assesses the problem with respect to both its causes and outcomes. This book addresses the need for research involving clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science disciplines. By defining and addressing the health and economic consequences of premature birth, this book will be of particular interest to health care professionals, public health officials, policy makers, professional associations and clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science researchers.
Download or read book The Optimal Duration of Exclusive Breastfeeding written by Department of Child and Adolescent Health and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2002 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The longstanding debate over the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding has centered on the so-called "weanling's dilemma" in developing countries: the choice between the known protective effect of exclusive breastfeeding against infectious morbidity and the (theoretical) insufficiency of breast milk alone to satisfy the infant's energy and micronutrient requirements beyond 4 months of age. The primary objective of this review is to assess the effects on child health, growth, and development, and on maternal health, of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months vs exclusive breastfeeding for 3-4 months with mixed breastfeeding (introduction of complementary liquid or solid foods with continued breastfeeding) thereafter through 6 months.
