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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Bottle Feeding"”.
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Bottle-feeding as an Infant Feeding Modality
Infant feeding is fundamental for the survival of infants. Globally and within Australia, many families use bottle-feeding as their primary feeding mode or in combination with breastfeeding. Yet there is an absence of literature that describes the act of bottle-feeding as an infant feeding …
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Detection, Identification and Classification of Suck, Swallow and Breathing Activity In Premature Infants During Bottle-Feeding
… the problems encountered by premature infants, feeding difficulties are very common. Many premature infants are fed intravenously at first, and they progress to milk feedings provided by a tube passed into the stomach. At around 34 weeks of gestation, premature infants should be able to …
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Breastfeeding and the social control of women
Breastfeeding remains problematic in our society despite its being a 'natural' physiological process, its official encouragement as the healthiest way to feed babies and its revival in popularity amongst mothers over the last thirty years. Many mothers give up early and turn to bottle-feeding, and …
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Impact on Material and Child Health Knowledge as a Result of Participation in a Family Resource\Youth Services Center New and Expectant Parenting Series
… choices in regards to child safety, breast or bottle feeding, immunizations, car seat use, etc. Secondly, thirty participants were given a pretest and posttest questionnaire. As a control group, there were 25 Lamaze class participants, who also completed the pre-test and posttest …
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Exploring the Relationships Between Mothers' Use of Food to Soothe, Feeding Type and Mode, Maternal Feeding Style, Infant Behavior, and Infant Weight-Related Outcomes During Early Infancy
… trajectories, the modifiable factor of parent feeding practices can also have an influence. The use of food to soothe (FTS), or the act of feeding a child when he/she is upset for reasons other than hunger, has been associated with unhealthy eating behaviors and less-favorable weight outcomes …
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Development of a Breastfeeding Class Specifically for Working Moms
<p>Successfully breastfeeding mothers who are planning to return to work and remain exclusively breastfeeding their infants have a knowledge deficit as to the federal law protecting their rights along with the basic skills for pumping, storing, and bottle-feeding of breast milk. There is a …
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Evaluating breastfeeding support : a randomised controlled trial of support from breastfeeding counsellors
Two-thirds of UK mothers begin breastfeeding, but many soon stop. Although breastfeeding benefits health, infant feeding is influenced by social and attitudinal factors. Study one prospectively investigated the attitudes and experiences of 514 women. Past experience predicted which multiparae would …
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QUANTIFICATION OF PRETERM INFANT FEEDING COORDINATION: AN ALGORITHMIC APPROACH
Oral feeding competency is a primary requirement for preterm infant hospital release. Currently there is no widely accepted method to objectively measure oral feeding. Feeding consists primarily of the integration of three individual feeding events: sucking, breathing, and swallowing, and the …
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Changes in joint laxity associated with the menstrual cycle, with pregnancy, with the post-partum period, and with the menopause
… a normal menstrual cycle, pregnant women, breast feeding women, and women after the menopause, were all examined to discover if their hormones had an effect on the mobility of the joint concerned. The results of the menstrual cycle study showed that every subject underwent , an increase in laxity …
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Effects of maternal social factors on infant feeding practices among HIV positive mothers in Kasama Northern Province
… the social factors that influence infant feeding practices among HIV positive women in Kasama, Northern Province.This was a cross-sectional study and was descriptive in nature. The study was conducted in Northern Province, Kasama District at 2 clinics- the Kasama Urban clinic and the …
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Effects of maternal social factors on infant feeding practices among HIV positive mothers in Kasama Northern Province
… the social factors that influence infant feeding practices among HIV positive women in Kasama, Northern Province.This was a cross-sectional study and was descriptive in nature. The study was conducted in Northern Province, Kasama District at 2 clinics- the Kasama Urban clinic and the …
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Community Breastfeeding Attitudes and Beliefs
… publicly have resulted in an increase of breastfeeding rates, yet still have not reached the goals of Healthy People 2010. This paper adds to the body of breastfeeding literature to understand why some women breastfeed and others do not by exploring some of the individual characteristics of a …
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Early Childhood Caries in children 12-24 months old in Mitchell's Plain, South Africa
… between early childhood caries and infant feeding practices. c) The relation between early childhood caries and oral hygiene practices of the child.This study is a cross sectional study of ECC of children 12-24 months of age. Parent/child pair attending the Well Baby Clinic at …
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Infant Feeding Practices of HIV positive Mothers in Lusaka District
Despite the high prevalence of breastfeeding (98%) in Zambia, the majority of infants are not fed in compliance with WHO/UNICEF recommendation. The recommendation calls for a period of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and introduction of complementary foods between six and nine months while …
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Infant Feeding Practices of HIV positive Mothers in Lusaka District
Despite the high prevalence of breastfeeding (98%) in Zambia, the majority of infants are not fed in compliance with WHO/UNICEF recommendation. The recommendation calls for a period of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and introduction of complementary foods between six and nine months while …
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The influence of caregivers nutrition knowledge and feeding practices on the nutritional status of children 2 to 5 years old in the Makhuduthaga Municipality, South Africa.
… every country in the world. Inappropriate feeding practices such as bottle feeding, early introduction of weaning foods, lack of variety in the diet are a known major cause of the onset of malnutrition in young children. Lack of nutrition knowledge, particularly about feeding practices, is …
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The Next Best Thing: Bottlefeeding Culture and the <em>Ladies' Home Journal</em>
<p>Today we take the prevalence of bottlefeeding for granted For so many American women, it is just the way things are and have been for generations Indeed, relatively few of even the oldest generation of American women breastfed their infants for any significant duration, and breastfeeding largely …
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Patterns of breast-feeding practice in Semarang, Indonesia: comparison between women in peri-urban area and urban area
… birthday.According to WHO and UNICEF, breast-feeding is the best way to feed babies. In developing countries, breast-feeding has been the subject of rapidly growing interest, not just because breast milk is sterile and safe and beneficial to the health of children, but can also lower …
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Tongue-thrust Etiology : A Review of the Literature
… habits. Eight percent of scholars felt that bottle feeding contributed to a deviant neuromuscular pattern of swallowing. Non-nutritive sucking habits and tonsillitis tissue was felt by eight percent to play a strong role in tongue-thrust and open bites. Three percent felt that neurological …
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