Sentences with phrase «higher infant survival»

Despite the benefits of social status on their reproductive success — higher - ranking females appear to have access to better food and higher infant survival than their low - ranking counterparts — the tendency of female chimpanzees to «wait their turn» rather than fighting for rank reveals the competing priorities males and females face when ensuring the success of their offspring.

Not exact matches

«The infant congregation inherits a high level of enthusiasm but develops a strong need for survival,» detailed the Institute.

There's such a high rate of confidence in the likelihood of survival of mother and child that it's common for women to have baby showers at some point in the third trimester of pregnancy instead of waiting for the infant to be born.

We have developed, thanks to those large brains, to a situation where survival rates are incredibly high in the developed world, but it is still the case that human infants remain woefully underdeveloped when they arrive.

Thus, although a small infant fed breast milk through a tube will have a higher chance of healthy survival than one fed formula by tube, any infant who is fed directly at the breast or who is otherwise fed breast milk with warm body contact and affectionate care will have the best chance for success.

Breastmilk - fed preterm and low - weight infants have higher survival rates, lower illness rates, stronger bones (eventually), greater intelligence and superior neurological development; hence, weight gain comparisons are not highly relevant.

Infectious disease rates are high in many less developed parts of the world, with high infant and child mortality rates — but industrialization, medicine, and money are not the end - all answers to optimal child survival.

Aside from enhancing maternal behaviors, high oxytocin levels help facilitate the let - down reflex, bringing breast milk to the baby, very obviously influencing her infant's survival.

Since premature infants are at high risk of neonatal complications, particularly affecting the brain and respiratory and digestive systems, survival rates without serious neonatal disease are lower.