Weight gain has never been a big struggle for my babies but I definitely can remember being on edge that my first baby was less than what he was
born at as a first time mommy, you know, and I was reassure that that was
normal but I can remember having that out of, oh, he weighs less now than when he was
born.
When the researchers looked
at the data from adults who were
born small for their gestational age
at term, they found that this group had lower bone mass than adults who were
born with
normal weight at term.
«In terms of major stresses in childhood and adolescence, preterm survivors appear to be impacted more than those
born at normal birth
weight,» said Ryan J. Van Lieshout, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences
at McMaster University and the Albert Einstein / Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience.
A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US
born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (
normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth
weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed
at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day
at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).