Gender Differences in Adult - Infant Communication in the First Months of Life examined parent - infant communication in a prospective cohort study of 33 late preterm and
term infants from birth through age seven months.
Not exact matches
The publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics, showed how the research involving 33 late preterm and
term infants received far more verbal communication
from birth to age 7 months
from their mothers than their fathers.
From the Materials and Methods: «This study therefore includes only singleton
term births (deliveries ≥ 37 weeks) and
infants weighing ≥ 2500 g.»
Researchers analyzed data on 1,000 late preterm, 1,800 early
term and 3,200 full
term infants from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study,
Birth Cohort.
Studies comparing human milk
from preterm mothers with that
from term mothers suggest that these immunologic benefits may be even greater for preterm
infants because secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), lysozyme, lactoferrin, and interferon are found in greater concentrations in preterm human milk compared with
term milk.2 — 4 Very low
birth weight (VLBW)
infants do not benefit
from the transplacental transfer of maternal immunoglobulins that occurs primarily after 34 weeks of gestation.5 These
infants are exposed to abundant pathogenic organisms during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization and may benefit
from the host defense factors present in preterm human milk.6 — 9
Since February 1, 2012, stakeholders have been invited to review and provide comments on the revised draft statement: Nutrition for Healthy
Term Infants - Recommendations
from Birth to Six Months.
Presented «Immediate and Sustained Skin - to - Skin Contact
From Birth,» «Actions and Attitudes: Long -
Term Consequences of
Birth and Breastfeeding Practices,» and «Sleeping Through: New Research on
Infant Development and SIDS.»
All mother and father pairs of healthy,
term, normal
birth weight
infants who were born between October 1, 2002, and January 31, 2003, were enrolled; unmarried women, mothers who had decided to bottle feed, and parents whose
infants were admitted to the ICU were excluded
from the study.
Full -
term babies who are breastfed or who get iron - fortified
infant formula
from birth do not need an iron supplement.
Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others
from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for
term and preterm
infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after
birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.
Preterm
infants are at increased risk of SIDS, 12,13 and the association between prone sleep position and SIDS among low
birth weight
infants is equal to, or perhaps even stronger than, the association among those born at
term.14 Preterm
infants and other
infants in the NICU should be placed in the supine position for sleep as soon as the
infant is medically stable and significantly before the
infant's anticipated discharge, by 32 weeks» postmenstrual age.15 NICU personnel should endorse safe - sleeping guidelines with parents of
infants from the time of admission to the NICU.
Analyses of findings
from an earlier intensive child development program for low
birth weight children and their parents (the
Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long -
term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways
from the short -
term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long -
term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long -
term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long -
term effects on the students» behaviour.