Infant Feeding Practices and Growth

Dettwyler, Katherine A.; Fishman, Claudia

doi:10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.001131

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“…Several studies suggested that appropriate child feeding practices have an impact on child nutritional status [10,15-17,20,30]. Responsive or active feeding was found to be more beneficial to the child in some low- or middle-income countries [15,27,31,32] and non-responsive feeding was associated with child BMI and overweight or obesity in high-income countries [20] though, cross-study definitions of responsive feeding were inconsistent.…”

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“…However, comparing feeding styles between studies prior to 1995 was difficult due to a lack of consistency in terminology and unclear definitions of feeding styles [10]. Later on, feeding styles were conceptualized and defined by Birch and Fisher as controlling, laissez-faire, and responsive feeding styles [11], and have been used in different researches [9,12,13].…”

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Feeding styles of caregivers of children 6-23 months of age in Derashe special district, Southern Ethiopia

2012

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BackgroundApart from basic determinants, appropriate child care practices are important in prevention of growth faltering and undernutrition. Providing safe and appropriate quality complementary foods is crucial to child growth and development. However, some children in low-income communities grow normally mainly due to proper caregiver feeding behaviors. Hence, the objective of this study was to determine caregivers' feeding styles as well as to indentify predictors in Derashe special district, Southern Ethiopia.MethodsA community based cross-sectional study design was employed in the seven randomly selected Kebeles (smallest administrative unit) of Derashe special district. A total of 826 caregivers provided data pertaining to socio-demographic variables. However, 764 caregivers had complete data for the outcome variable (caregiver feeding style). A multistage stratified sampling technique was used to identify study subjects. An adapted Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire (CFSQ) was used to gather information about caregivers' feeding styles. Multivariate multinomial logistic regression was employed to identify predictors of caregivers' feeding style.ResultsThe majority (80.6%) of caregivers were biological mothers. Nearly seventy-six percent of the caregivers practiced a responsive feeding style. Caregivers other than the biological mother favoured a laissez-faire feeding style, while caregivers residing in rural Kebeles were more responsive. Caregivers with a breastfeeding frequency of more than eight times predicted both laissez-faire (RRR = 1.88; 95% CI = 1.03-3.41) and controlling (RRR = 1.7; 95% CI = 1.02-2.85) feeding styles as compared to responsive feeding.ConclusionResponsive feeding was the commonest style practiced by the caregivers. Many of the caregivers who were rural residents and birth parents have been responsive in child feeding. The instruments needed to be validated in the Ethiopian context and an additional prospective study based on direct observation of caregiver-child interactions is recommended.

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Feeding styles of caregivers of children 6-23 months of age in Derashe special district, Southern Ethiopia

2012

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“…The term "weaning" has been commonly used in archaeological literature to denote both (a) the introduction of complementary food and gradual reduction of breast milk consumption and (b) the cessation of breastfeeding (also called complete weaning; Dettwyler & Fishman, 1992;Katzenberg et al, 1996;Wood, 1994). In this paper, weaning is defined as a process that starts when foods other than breast milk are continuously included in the diet and ends with the cessation of breastfeeding (Dettwyler & Fishman, 1992;WHO, 2008). In addition, we understand as "weaning foods" all supplementary solids and liquids, other than breast milk, consumed during the weaning process.…”

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“…We use the term "transitional foods" to refer to food types that are isotopically distinct from adult food and are included in juvenile diets after the cessation of breastfeeding, whereas "adult food" refers to the food typically consumed by adults in the population (Dettwyler & Fishman, 1992;Tsutaya & Yoneda, 2013;WHO, 2008). Finally, in this paper, the term "nonadults" refer to individuals still in the phase of growth and development.…”

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Assessing the association between subsistence strategies and the timing of weaning among indigenous archaeological populations of the Caribbean

Armas

Pestle

2018

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Human breastfeeding is a biocultural process shaped by the interaction of numerous biological, cultural, economic, and social factors. Although previous studies have found that a society's subsistence economy alone does not determine weaning timing, subsistence may still have a profound effect on weaning food choices. This paper analyses nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes in bone collagen and apatite of individuals from six precolonial Caribbean sites grouped into four subsistence categories: Hunter‐Fisher‐Gatherers (Cueva del Perico I and Cueva Calero, Cuba), Horticulturalists (Canímar Abajo, Cuba), Agriculturalists from the Antilles (Paso del Indio, Puerto Rico), and Agriculturalists of Mesoamerica (Marco Gonzalez and San Pedro, Belize) in order to explore how subsistence economy affected the different groups' breastfeeding and weaning practices. Ages for the start and the end of weaning, and the isotopic characteristics of possible food sources used as supplements during the weaning process, were assessed using the Bayesian probability model “Weaning Age Reconstruction with Nitrogen isotopes.” Model results indicate (a) a major dietary change around 2 years of age for most of the study populations, (b) that supplements seem to have been introduced into nonadults diet at earlier ages than has been observed in ethnographic populations of the area, (c) no direct correlation between the start of weaning and the availability of cultigens, but (d) that groups that had access to cultigens would appear to have weaned their children using foods with lower nitrogen isotope values, suggesting that plants (likely domesticates) may have had an important role as weaning foods.

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“…The role, both supportive and conflicting, played by family members, neighbours and clinicians in the genesis and perception of IBM, clearly points to fundamental social and systemic influences. Another common and possibly misleading explanation for insufficient milk is that women who are no longer interested in breastfeeding use it as a rationalization for stopping the practice (Dettwyler & Fishman 1992). However, it was argued that, because breastfeeding is declining in the western world, mothers are no longer confident in their breastfeeding ability (Segura-Millán et al 1994).…”

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Reconfiguring insufficient breast milk as a sociosomatic problem: mothers of premature babies using the kangaroo method in Brazil

Groleau¹,

Cabral²

2008

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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This study focuses on Brazilian mothers who gave birth to premature babies who were discharged from hospital using the Kangaroo Mother Care Method. While mothers left the hospital breastfeeding exclusively, once back at home, they abandoned exclusive breastfeeding because of insufficient breast milk (IBM). In this project we explored how IBM was interpreted by mothers within their social context. Participatory research using the Creative Sensitive Method was done in the homes of mothers with family members and neighbours. We described the conflicting social discourse that influenced the mothers' perception of IBM and explored their sources of distress. At the hospital and Kangaroo ward, mothers considered that clinicians recognized they were experiencing IBM and thus supported them to overcome this problem. Back at home and in their community, other sources of stress generated anxiety such as: the lack of outpatient clinical support, and conflicting local norms to care and feed premature babies. These difficulties combined with economic constraints and discontinuity in models of health care led mothers to lose confidence in their breastfeeding capacity. Mothers, thus, rapidly replaced exclusive breastfeeding by mixed feeding or formula feeding. Our analysis suggests that IBM in our sample was the result of a socio-somatic process. Recommendations are proposed to help overcome IBM and corresponding contextual barriers to exclusive breastfeeding.

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Infant Feeding Practices and Growth

Cited by 87 publications

References 107 publications

Feeding styles of caregivers of children 6-23 months of age in Derashe special district, Southern Ethiopia

Feeding styles of caregivers of children 6-23 months of age in Derashe special district, Southern Ethiopia

Assessing the association between subsistence strategies and the timing of weaning among indigenous archaeological populations of the Caribbean

Reconfiguring insufficient breast milk as a sociosomatic problem: mothers of premature babies using the kangaroo method in Brazil

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