Sentences with phrase «younger infants tend»

Younger infants tended to require parental intervention at night to return to sleep, whereas older infants exhibited a greater proportion of self - soothing after nighttime awakenings.

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As pillows are absolute no - nos for infants, some parents tend to be hesitant about letting their young tots to use one.

Iron - fortified formulas tend to be more harsh on younger infants digestive systems.

In fact, according to a study in Breastfeeding Medicine, mothers with lower rates of breastfeeding «tend to be young, low - income, African American, unmarried, less educated, participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), overweight or obese before pregnancy, and more likely to report their pregnancy was unintended.»

Bassinets may be used for sleep, diaper changes, or just to keep a young infant close by as you tend to other tasks.

Infants as young as six months old tend to expect that plants are food sources, but only after an adult shows them that the food is safe to eat, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

This is the predominant method of breathing in healthy infants and young children, but as we get older we tend to breathe using our chest and shoulder muscles and less of our diaphragm.

Infants and young children with food sensitivities tend to be allergic to the most common allergy triggers (allergens), such as those in eggs, milk, wheat, peanuts, and soybeans.

Other breeds tend to be possessive of what they believe is theirs and this can lead to a dangerous situation if you have young infants.

Although adolescent mothers with more education, less parenting stress, and higher social support satisfaction are more likely to have secure attachment patterns with their children (Emery, Pacquette, & Bigras, 2008), evidence suggests that in general, young mothers tend to be less responsive to their infants than older mothers, have fewer positive interactions, and vocalize less with their infants (Borkowski, Farris, Whitman, Carothers, Weed, & Keogh, 2007; Culp, Appelbaum, Osofsky, & Levy, 1988; Tarabulsy, Moran, Pederson, Provost, & Larose, 2011).

Both Sullivan and Sayer report that when we take into account that husbands tend to work more paid hours than wives, we find that — aside from families with very young infants, such as those described in the OSU study — the total work hours of couples (combining paid and unpaid labor) are basically even.

Several smaller studies have investigated the relationship of paternal and child mental health, and they have reported related findings among children of different ages than those in the study reported in this article.14, — , 21 One study found an association between paternal depression and excessive infant crying.45 Another study found that children aged 9 to 24 months with depressed fathers are more likely to show speech and language delays, 19,21 whereas another study reported that children aged 2 years with depressed fathers tended to be less compliant with parental guidance.17 Among children aged 4 to 6 years, paternal depression has been found to be associated with increases in problems with prosocial behaviors and peer problems.15 Only 1 other study we are aware of was population based; it was from England and investigated related issues among much younger children, 23 demonstrating that both maternal and paternal depressive symptoms predicted increased child mood and emotional problems at 6 and 24 months of age.