Sentences with phrase «mother at infancy»

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When researchers tracked 45 mother - child pairs from infancy to age 7, they found that infants who were securely - attached during infancy were more likely to demonstrate emotional availability at age 7 (Easterbrooks et al 2000).

Finally, we also support parents who nurse long past infancy here — breastfeeding past infancy is normal and beneficial to both mother and child, and we absolutely support breastfeeding until the CHILD is ready to wean (whether that's at 2 or 7!).

Researchers surveyed approximately 900 healthy children and their mothers living in Santiago, Chile at five - year intervals from the child's infancy through age 16.

Eating fish more than three times a week during pregnancy was associated with mothers giving birth to babies at increased risk of rapid growth in infancy and of childhood obesity, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

The Child grows older (and is played by 6 - year - old Jackie Coogan, who instantly became a star), at which point he becomes the object of attention for a meddling doctor, a heartless orphanage head, and even his own mother (Edna Purviance), who had abandoned the boy in his infancy and now doesn't realize he's her own flesh and blood.

Therefore, it is highly possible that the children of mothers with PDS at four weeks after delivery display higher levels of aggression during early infancy.

The first 3 months of life is a critical period for adipose tissue (AT) deposition (8), but, to our knowledge, longitudinal examination of the quantity and distribution of AT in early infancy has not been undertaken in the offspring of mothers with diabetes.

Regarding the child, the importance of the intrauterine and early postnatal environments for metabolic programming and modifications of the epigenome is increasingly recognised, 12 — 14 particularly for metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.15 Thus, GDM is related to macrosomia at birth (> 4 kg), to excess body fat and (central) obesity and to insulin secretion in infants and children, the obesity being in part mediated by maternal body mass index (BMI) or birth weight.16 — 23 Intrauterine exposure to GDM also doubles the risk for subsequent type 2 diabetes in offspring compared with offspring of mothers with a high genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes, but with normal glucose tolerance during the index pregnancy.24 Maternal prepregnancy overweight and excessive gestational weight gain also predict high birth weight and adiposity during infancy.12 25 This is highly relevant, as up to 60 % — 70 % of women with GDM are overweight or obese before pregnancy.26 Finally, maternal lifestyle behaviour such as a high fat diet or lack of physical activity during pregnancy can influence offspring adiposity independent of maternal obesity.12 27

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

Regarding interventions commencing in infancy, Early Start26, 27 had the best balance of evidence for reducing child internalising problems.25 Early Start is a individual home visiting program in New Zealand that targets at - risk and stressed mothers over two to three years.

Well, recent research suggests that our relationship experiences from infancy might lay the groundwork for how we behave with close others in adulthood.2 These researchers assessed participants» relationships with their mothers in infancy and then looked at how those same individuals behaved with their romantic partners in adulthood.

Maternal depression is demonstrated to contribute to multiple early child developmental problems, including impaired cognitive, social and academic functioning.3 - 6 Children of depressed mothers are at least two to three times more likely to develop adjustment problems, including mood disorders.3 Even in infancy, children of depressed mothers are more fussy, less responsive to facial and vocal expressions, more inactive and have elevated stress hormones compared to infants of non-depressed mothers.7, 8 Accordingly, the study of child development in the context of maternal depression is a great societal concern and has been a major research direction for early childhood developmental researchers for the past several decades.

«During infancy, the baby obtains nourishment and pleasure from sucking at the mother's breasts thus reducing tension caused by the hunger drive.»

Finally, it is important to ensure that families at developmental risk, including single mothers, are provided with the social and financial resources necessary to provide their children with a supportive environment during infancy.

When researchers tracked 45 mother - child pairs from infancy to age 7, they found that infants who were securely - attached during infancy were more likely to demonstrate emotional availability at age 7 (Easterbrooks et al 2000).

The absence of a resident father from infancy was not found to have negative consequences for the psychological wellbeing of the children or for the quality of mother — child relationships, apart from the children perceiving themselves as less competent and the mothers reporting more severe disputes with their children at adolescence.

Two longitudinal studies of children's social and emotional development in not - at - risk middle - class two - parent families were started in the mid - and late 1970s: the Bielefeld project, or Project 1, which started with the birth of the infants, and the Regensburg project, or Project 2, which started when the infants were 11 months old.19 The children's experiences in the domains of attachment and exploration were assessed in infancy, childhood and adolescence, with both mother and father using standardized or free observations.

A recent random assignment intervention study examined whether mothers» responsive behaviours could be facilitated and whether such behaviours would boost young children's learning.6 To also examine the most optimal timing for intervention (e.g. across infancy versus the toddler / preschool period versus both), families from the intervention and non-intervention groups were re-randomized at the end of the infancy phase, to either receive the responsiveness intervention in the toddler / preschool period or not.22 The intervention was designed to facilitate mothers» use of key behaviours that provided affective - emotional support and those that were cognitively responsive, as both types of support were expected to be necessary to promote learning.

Temperament in infancy and behavioral and emotional problems at age 5.5: The EDEN mother - child cohort.