Maternal Behavior and Infant Weight Gain in the First Year

Autor/inn/en	Worobey, John; Lopez, Maria Islas; Hoffman, Daniel J.
Titel	Maternal Behavior and Infant Weight Gain in the First Year
Quelle	In: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 41 (2009) 3, S.169-175 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1499-4046
DOI	10.1016/j.jneb.2008.06.005
Schlagwörter	Cues; Mothers; Low Income Groups; Nutrition; Infants; Body Weight; Child Health; Parent Influence; Individual Characteristics; Longitudinal Studies; Minority Groups; At Risk Persons; Predictor Variables; Perinatal Influences; Age Differences; Child Development; Parent Child Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Mother; Mutter; Ernährung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Körpergewicht; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ethnische Minderheit; Risikogruppe; Prädiktor; Perinatalperiode; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kindesentwicklung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Objective: To examine the relative contributions of maternal characteristics and behaviors in predicting infant weight gain over the first year of postpartum life. Design: Longitudinal study of maternal feeding style throughout infancy. Setting: A Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children center. Participants: Ninety-six low-income, minority mother-infant dyads. Main Outcome Measures: Infant weight gain at 3, 6, and 12 months. Analysis: Multiple linear and backward regressions. Results: None of the mother-infant perinatal measures predicted infant weight gain from birth to 3 months, nor did measures from birth to 3 months predict weight gain from 3 to 6 months. However, the number of feedings and lessened maternal sensitivity to infant cues predicted weight gain from 6 to 12 months. Conclusions and Implications: These results suggest that feeding plays an important role in promoting rapid weight gain in infants, since the maternal reports of feeding frequency, as well as their lessened sensitivity to the infants' cues, indicate that the infants in this study may have been regularly overfed. Nutrition educators who work with low-income populations should provide guidance to mothers in feeding their infants by helping them to recognize hunger signals and respond to satiety cues. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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