Sentences with phrase «initiated by the infants»

In other traditional societies, parents don't match this extreme pace, but feedings are nonetheless initiated by the infants.

Female adults had a higher response rate to language blocks initiated by infant girls than boys during the newborn period and at 44 weeks» PMA.

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In 2008 a pilot study in Rhode Island USA initiated by Dr Daniel Rubens identified that 31 infants who had died of SIDS had markedly lowered hearing test results at birth.

The same principle applies to relactation as to induced lactation: both are initiated and maintained by an infant suckling frequently at the breast.

§ Model policy elements are 1) in - service training, 2) prenatal breastfeeding classes, 3) asking about mothers» feeding plans, 4) initiating breastfeeding within one hour of uncomplicated vaginal birth, 5) initiating breastfeeding after recovery for uncomplicated Cesarean sections and / or showing mothers how to express milk and maintain lactation if separated from infant, 6) giving only breast milk to breastfed infants, 7) rooming - in 24 hr / day, 8) breastfeeding on demand, 9) no pacifier use by breastfed infants, 10) referral of mothers with breastfeeding problems and / or referral of mothers to appropriate breastfeeding resources at discharge.

To shed light on precisely how such learning occurs, Maye, along with Dan Weiss, a psychologist at Pennsylvania State University in State College, initiated a study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to look at differences in learning patterns in infants, adults, and monkeys.

These data suggest that a disturbance in the tendency to initiate episodes of joint attention with others may be indicative of early social — cognitive and social — emotional disturbance among infants affected by disorganized attachment status.

In addition, several investigator - initiated research projects were funded to support applied research relating to home visiting services that show promise of advancing knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness to improve life outcomes among mothers, infants, and young children.9 This issue includes more details on this home visiting research network in the article by Anne Duggin and colleagues, «Creating a National Home Visiting Research Network.»

Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles and books as well as talking with (and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)

A landmark study of resilience, initiated by Werner and Smith in 1954, involved the longitudinal investigation of «at risk» infants on the island of Kauai with follow - up assessments continuing to the present day (Werner 1993).