The research — led by principal investigators Bradley S. Peterson, MD, director of the Institute for the Developing Mind at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Catherine Monk, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center — indicates the potential significance for the child of even modest changes in
maternal dietary health.
Not exact matches
Health services and agricultural extension services, secondary schools, women's groups, and other outreach networks provide opportunities to promote better infant feeding and
maternal dietary practices and to offer preventive care and counseling.
Yet
health and nutrition programs sometimes overlook the
maternal dietary practices and behaviors that are critical to improving nutrition and shaping a child's future during the first 1,000 days.
Melissa Daniels, PhD, will present findings from IYCN's descriptive analysis, using Demographic and
Health Survey data, on
maternal dietary practices in three countries.
The change required 18 months of vetting through all departments, including Directors of
Maternal / Fetal
Health, Physician Champions, Heads of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Nurse Managers, NICU Nurses, Infection Control, Quality Control, Pharmacy and even
dietary.
In addition, it should not be forgotten that a high level of
dietary protein is also beneficial to sustain the
health of the bitches themselves, since late gestation and lactation pose a high metabolic demand on the
maternal body.