Sentences with phrase «among older infants»

Additional studies examining well - child care among older infants and children may be necessary to determine whether an association exists between maternal depressive symptoms and adequate well - child care.

Among the oldest infants, stressful life events were also significantly associated with seven out of eight categories of disease.

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55 % of fathers of infants feeling they spend too little time with their children (this dropped to 32 % among fathers of 6 - 16 year olds).

Best - selling author, national columnist, and family therapist John Rosemond has responded to the epidemic of wetting and soiling among older children by recommending a return to the age - old practice of potty training babies or newly mobile tots (see article on the Benefits of Infant Potty Training).

Supine sleeping was less common among blacks and Hispanics and more common among infants of older mothers and mothers with low parity.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

Pollen, grass and similar allergies are more common among older toddlers than infants.

In contrast to these global trends among traditional societies and non-Western countries, U.S. government data estimates that fewer than 15 % of Americans continue nursing their infants after they are just six months old (while Canadians are slightly higher with an average of about 25 %).

To determine the extent of exclusive breastfeeding practices among mothers of 4 and 6 month old infants whose fathers received breastfeeding education materials and counseling services.

In 1 study, 6 % and 12 % of 16 - to 23 - week - old infants placed on their backs or sides, respectively, were found in the prone position; among infants aged 24 weeks or older, 14 % of those placed on their backs and 18 % of those placed on their sides were found in the prone position.112 Repositioning the sleeping infant to the supine position can be disruptive and might discourage the use of supine position altogether.

The highest rate of cases is among infants just 6 to 8 weeks old, which is when babies tend to cry the most.

Ball [22][23] reported that bed - sharing prevalence (ever sleeping with baby in the same bed) in the north - east of England was 47 % among a sample of 253 families with 1 month old infants, dropping to 29 % when the same babies were three months old.

Even among 1 - year - olds, there is a socioeconomic gap in an infant's use of gestures, such as pointing — which predicts later vocabulary use, Rowe said.

Sixteen - month - old infants (N = 83) rationally used sparse data about the distribution of outcomes among agents and objects to solve a fundamental inference problem: deciding whether event outcomes are due to themselves or the world.

The infection is most common among immunocompromised patients, including premature infants and older adults.

Mother «help» for humans as well as among other mammalian species is more effectively given performing other chores, such as provisioning for the nursing mother, or caregiving help for older children — not infant care.