Sentences with phrase «whose infant child»

In the final passage of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, a man narrowly escapes starvation by feeding at the breast of a woman whose infant child has died.

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They said 13 children whose families have been questioned to date have all consumed infant formula milk from products made between mid-July and end of November on the same production site LNS (Lactalis) at Craon, en Mayenne.

The theory of attachment originated with psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907 - 1990) whose influential 1951 report to the World Health Organization set the first standard for infant and child care:

The mothers whose children (now preschool - aged) had «[persistent] or [recurring]... infant sleep problems in the preschool years [had] higher depression scores.»

Subjects for the interviews were breastfeeding mothers whose infants were evaluated by a pediatric resident at a well - child visit from birth to 1 month of age in the pediatric outpatient center.

AIMHiTN is a professional home for anyone whose work supports infants, young children, and their families.

The fact is, children of any age can get something out of a play date, even infants whose thrills may be found in seeing new faces, touching new toys, and getting used to «strangers.»

Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are especially vulnerable to asthma, and have double or even triple the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

This philosophy, termed «Attachment Parenting» by its champion, pediatrician and father of eight Dr. William Sears (author of the popular child - care manual The Baby Book, among others), sees infants not as manipulative adversaries who must be «trained» to eat, sleep, and play when told, but as dependent yet autonomous human beings whose wants and needs are intelligible to the parent willing to listen, and who deserve to be responded to in a reasonable and sensitive manner.

You say, «To make the assumption (both in the article and in some of the comments throughout) that infant death is only related to intoxication or extreme fatigue is unfair to the parent or parents whose child has died in a co-sleeping situation.»

To make the assumption (both in the article and in some of the comments throughout) that infant death is only related to intoxication or extreme fatigue is unfair to the parent or parents whose child has died in a co-sleeping situation.

Infants and children whose basic physical and emotional needs are neglected learn not to expect normal caregiving and comfort from their caregivers.

WHO and UNICEF jointly developed the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding whose aim is to improve - through optimal feeding - the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children.

Studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the researchers found that preemies whose daily diets were at least 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue and cortical - surface area by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.

It is an evidence - based program whose aim is to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young children.

Fathers of infants were men whose youngest child was older than 1 mo (m) but 1 y (yr) old or less.

In the 1960s, John Bowlby, whose work on infant attachment has informed so much of current attachment theory, promoted the idea that children used their blankies as a calming substitute for their key attachment figure, and by the 1970s, even eminent childcare writers like Dr. Spock and Penelope Leach were actively advocating the introduction of comfort objects to help babies manage times of separation.

Many cases involve children or infants whose parents accidentally measure the wrong dose in the middle of the night, or combine different medicines without realizing that they all contain the same ingredient — for example, Tylenol for a fever and then a second medicine for a cough.

The study recently published in the journal AIDS shows that while the HIV medications have been successful in helping to prevent the transmission of the virus from mother to infant, they are associated with persistently impaired development of heart muscle and reduced heart performance in non-HIV-infected children whose mothers received the medicines years earlier.

These include children whose mothers suffered from infections such as mumps during pregnancy, those deprived of oxygen during labour, or infants born into families with a history of deafness.

But in children under one year of age, infants whose intestinal tracts are still immature, the C. botulinum survives and starts making toxins.

To date, nine children from four different families have been identified as carriers of the mutation: three infants from Quebec, three from a Bengali family living in Toronto, and three Israelis, whose symptoms are less severe.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Examples include the Strom study (funded by the Infant Formula Council) that declared soy formulas «safe» in a great media blast but did not look at thyroid problems or asthma and whose data actually indicated reproductive problems; or the Klein literature study (carried out at a DuPont Children's Hospital; DuPont owns Protein Technologies, a manufacturer of soy protein isolate) which declared that there is no evidence in the literature of endocrine effects.

The effect of excess linoleic acid is probably most detrimental to infants and young children whose brains are still developing.

Things only become more absurd once we reach the introduction of Hannah Roennfeldt (Rachel Weisz), a woman whose husband rowed off to sea with their infant child and never returned, who crosses paths with Tom and Isabel when they make a return to the local town to christen their new baby.

Inside Singer's lives a clever young girl named Solemn Redvine, whose family prefers to keep their distance from their neighbors — with the exception of Solemn's father, whose occasional wanderings lead Solemn to believe the infant child of a couple down the way may be her half - sibling.

In 1998, Mr. Laake obtained a $ 1.8 million recovery for personal injuries to a mother and father and for the loss of their infant child against a motorist and a highway construction company whose equipment and road markers precipitated the defendant motorist crossing the center of the highway.

Spokeswoman Jennipher Dickens, whose infant son was shaken by his father at the age of seven weeks, said in a statement: «As a result of the child abuse my son endured in the form of Shaken Baby Syndrome, my son now has irreversible brain damage.

The clinical sample consisted of 43 infants and toddlers (26 boys and 17 girls) whose parents sought professional help (self - referrals and professional referrals) for sleep problems at a children's sleep laboratory.

ASQ: SE is a screening tool that identifies infants and young children whose social and emotional development requires further evaluation to determine if referral for intervention services is necessary.

Mothers whose infants are classified as insecurely attached enrol their infants in family day care homes that have a higher than average number of children per caregiver (Howes and others, 1988).

The failure of some of the babies to fulfill the prediction of the early test was attributed by Kagan (1994, pp. 204 - 206) to the way their mothers treated them in the intervening 17 months: High - reactive infants whose mothers used a relatively tough child - rearing style were less likely to become timid toddlers than those whose mothers used a wimpy style.

The following risks may be considered: (a) any child whose genetic background or birth family (birth mother / birth father) medical history indicates significant potential for developing physical / psychological problems, (b) a drug / alcohol exposed infant, (c) a child who has a history of multiple foster / adoptive disrupted placements of 3 or more due to a documented medical or psychological diagnosis which directly resulted in the disruption.

Ms. Davillier is the Co-Director and Curriculum Coordinator for the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Infant - Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program, a nationally acclaimed two - year intensive interdisciplinary fellowship for licensed professionals whose mandate it is to treat the social, emotional and relational derailments that can arise in families with children ages birth to five years.

Designed for advanced practitioners such as mental health clinicians, psychiatrists, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and early intervention specialists whose work with infants, young children, and their families involves assessment, diagnosis, and case formulation.

Are you parenting an infant or young child whose life has been affected by abuse, neglect, pain from medical procedures, illnesses or loss?

With difficulty affording necessities like nutritious food, and a husband whose military duties often kept him from home, Miriam describes the help she received from her home visitor as critical: «My home visitor helped me with every aspect of parenting, connecting me to a dietitian who could treat my daughter's disorder, helping me access (Women Infant and Children) so that my baby and I could afford to eat, and helping me learn about my baby's development.»

At high levels of maternal control / unresponsiveness in mother — infant relationship observations, more children have AD than children whose mothers are less controlling / more responsive.

Conant is behind many projects that enrich his community, including founding a Big Brothers / Big Sisters chapter, acquiring a state - of - the - art infant hearing monitor for the local hospital, and creating a memorial park to remember children like his daughter, Angel, whose lives have been cut short.