Sentences with phrase «growing term infant»

Human milk provides appropriate amounts of proteins (primarily alpha - lactalbumin and whey), carbohydrates (lactose), minerals, vitamins, and fats for the growing term infant.

Not exact matches

But, where full - term infants outgrow the twitchiness in a few weeks or months, premature babies tend to be twitchy and jumpy and display their newborn reflexes for a few months longer as their little bodies grow and try to catch up.

but knowing what I know about the mechanics of breastfeeding, infant behaviour and how they feed, over the years I have grown to prefer the term, «bottle preference» instead.

Premature Massage in the NICU: Expanding research in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has documented the short - term advantages of gentle touch and massage for healthy term infants and for some growing and medically stable pre-term newborns.

Gross - Loh, a stay - at - home mom in New York City, is part of a growing movement called «infant potty training» - or, in slightly ickier terms, «elimination communication» - whose followers believe that most parents are overly reliant on diapers.

Premature babies grow at a slower pace than full - term infants do for the first 24 months.

We evaluated the associations between the composition of the 6 - week intestinal microbiome and both delivery mode and feeding method in 102 full - term, appropriately grown infants enrolled in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study.

The term, infant mental health also describes an expanding field of study and practice that has grown into a broad - based multi-disciplinary and international effort to focus on the social emotional well - being of infants and toddlers (Heffron, 2000).

Dr. Libby Zimmerman, Connected Beginnings Training Institute» founder, held the lifelong belief that infants and young children who benefit from secure and stable relationships with parents, teachers and childcare providers have the best chance to grow into healthy, secure, children and adolescents who are prepared for long - term learning and success.

This would also be congruent with a growing body of evidence that several indices of child - focused parenting such as «mind - mindedness» — the mothers» ability to «tune in'to the offspring's mental state (including emotions)-- and related concepts such as maternal sensitivity and «appropriate and warm responses to infant cues (including emotions)», have long - term developmental effects (e.g. Meins et al. 2001; 2003, Murray et al. 2011).