Families receiving nurse visitation during pregnancy and
infancy had fewer child maltreatment reports involving mother as perpetrator and study child as victim.
Not exact matches
Gaps in breathing can be common in the first
few months of
infancy, according to The Natural
Child Project, and by being close by, a parent can arouse or assist a baby who might be
having respiratory issues.
Gaps in breathing can be common in the first
few months of
infancy, according to The Natural
Child Project, and by being close by, a parent can arouse or assist a baby who might be
having difficulty breathing.
The research was intended to demonstrate ways to reduce the chance of childhood obesity while the
child is still in
infancy stages, so that parents wouldn't need to worry about their
child's weight a
few years down the road.
Psychologists, doctors and special - education teachers now realize that a diagnosis at
infancy does not necessarily mean a
child will
have few options in life — as long as he or she receives special training early.
Out of all the
children, boys,
children from larger families, as well as those with more cognitive, motor or behaviour problems, and poorer parent - infant relationships in
infancy,
had fewer friends, met them less and were less accepted by them.
A fifteen - year follow - up of the Prenatal / Early
Infancy Project in Elmira, New York, showed that the nurse home visits significantly reduced
child abuse and neglect in participating families, as well as arrest rates for the
children and mothers.35 The women who received the program also spent much less time on welfare; those who were poor and unmarried
had significantly
fewer subsequent births.
Results Families receiving home visitation during pregnancy and
infancy had significantly
fewer child maltreatment reports involving the mother as perpetrator (P =.01) or the study
child as subject (P =.04) than families not receiving home visitation.
While associations between exposure to marital conflict and
child development
have been documented extensively in middle childhood and adolescence,
few studies
have examined the developmental consequences of conflict exposure in
infancy.