Promoting Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding, Bottle-Feeding, and the Introduction to Solid Foods
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Promoting Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding, Bottle-Feeding, and the Introduction to Solid Foods addresses how caregiver feeding practices and styles shape the quality and outcome of feeding interactions during infancy. Emphasis is placed on how the quality and nature of caregiver-child interactions during breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and the introduction to solid foods shape the development of children’s eating behaviors, growth trajectories and chronic disease risk. The book also considers the potential influence of broader contextual factors on early feeding interactions, including how psychological, social, cultural and economic factors may influence caregivers’ abilities to implement feeding recommendations.
Key Features
- Highlights the importance of responsive, or infant-led feeding practices and styles
- Promotes high-quality caregiver-infant interactions during breastfeeding, bottle-feeding and the introduction to solid foods
- Discusses the socioemotional and cognitive benefits of high-quality feeding interactions
Readership
Dieticians, nutritionists, lactation consultants and educators, pediatricians, nurses and other health professionals, along with researchers working in these fields
Table of Contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Abstract
- Organization of the Book
- Part 1: The Importance of Infant Feeding for Later Health Outcomes
- Chapter 2: Healthy Beginnings
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Sensitive Periods Defined
- Evidence for Sensitive Periods of Development Within Early Caregiver-Infant Relationships: Imprinting and Early Attachment
- Evidence for Sensitive Periods of Development for Dietary Patterns, Eating Behaviors, and Related Health Outcomes
- Harnessing the Power of Sensitive Periods in Research and Practice
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3: Healthy Infant Weight Gain and Growth
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Historical Considerations
- The World Health Organization Child Growth Standards
- Associations Between Rapid Weight Gain and Later Health Outcomes
- Caregivers’ Perceptions of Growth Charts and Healthy Infant Growth
- Conclusions
- References
- Part 2: Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding, Bottle-feeding, and the Transition to Solids
- Chapter 4: How Infants Communicate and Self-Regulate During Feeding
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Infant States
- Infant Cues
- Infants’ Capacities to Self-Regulate Intake During Feeding
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5: The Importance of Responsive Feeding
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Responsive Feeding Defined
- Nonresponsive Feeding Defined
- Responsive Feeding as a Facet of Responsive Caregiving
- Benefits of Responsiveness for Feeding and Developmental Outcomes
- Assessment of Responsive Feeding
- Promoting Responsive Feeding
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6: Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Breastfeeding as a Demand and Supply System
- The Role of Maternal Sensitivity and Responsiveness in Breastfeeding Success
- Links Between Perceived Insufficient Milk Supply and Responsive Feeding
- Breastfeeding as a Support for Responsive Feeding
- Associations Between Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding and Weight Outcomes
- Promoting Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7: Responsive Feeding During Bottle-Feeding
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Bottle-Feeding Versus Formula-Feeding
- How Bottle-Feeding Differs From Breastfeeding: Implications for Responsive Feeding
- Features of Bottles That May Affect Responsive Feeding and Feeding Outcomes
- Caregiver Feeding Practices and Styles During Bottle-Feeding
- Associations Between Formula-/Bottle-Feeding and Infant Feeding and Weight Outcomes
- Promoting Responsive Feeding During Bottle-feeding
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8: Responsive Feeding During the Transition to Solid Foods
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The Ideal: Recommendations for the Transition to Solid Foods
- The Reality: Young Children’s Diets Are in Need of Improvement
- How do Eating Behaviors and Dietary Patterns Develop During Infancy?
- Promoting Responsive Feeding During the Transition to Solids Foods
- Conclusions
- References
- Part 3: Additional Considerations for Promoting Responsive Feeding
- Chapter 9: Caregivers’ Engagement With Distracting Technology: Considerations and Concerns
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Technology and Mobile Device Use in Modern Times
- Parents’ Use of Technology and Mobile Devices Within Family Contexts
- Should We Be Concerned About Parents’ Use of Technology and Mobile Devices?
- Effects of Technology and Mobile Devices on Parent Sensitivity and Responsiveness
- Finding the Right Balance: A Note on Parent Guilt and Struggles
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10: Psychological, Social, and Contextual Influences on Early Feeding Interactions
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The Socioecological Model: A Framework for Understanding Caregivers’ Feeding Decisions
- Infant Behavior, Temperament, and Weight
- Maternal Mental Health
- Family Structure and Social Support
- Sociodemographic Factors
- Conclusions
- References
- Part 4: Conclusion
- Chapter 11: Conclusions
- Abstract
- Conclusions
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 136
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2022
- Published: August 3, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323884525
- eBook ISBN: 9780323884532
About the Author
Alison Ventura
Alison Ventura received a B.S. in Psychology with an emphasis in Biology and a minor in Community Nutrition from the University of California, Davis. She then earned two Master’s degrees from the Pennsylvania State University: one in Nutritional Sciences and the other in Human Development and Family Studies. In 2008, she earned her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. From 2008-2011, Dr. Ventura was a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a taste and smell research institute in Philadelphia, PA. For the past decade, Dr. Ventura’s research has primarily focused on infant feeding interactions and understanding how these interactions affect the development of eating behaviors and growth trajectories across infancy and early childhood.
Affiliations and Expertise
Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Public Health, Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Ratings and Reviews
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Liandre M. Fri Jan 06 2023
Excellent, rich and elaborate resource on the topic of responsive feeding in infancy
I found this book to be a very useful, comprehensive collection of the scientific and latest research on responsive feeding and parenting styles in infancy. The author addresses the topic from several perspectives, starting with infant growth and ending with the use of technology/devices such as smart phones during childcare and feeding. The various topics are addressed in a balanced, factual, and non-judgemental way, clearly substantiated by relevant reliable references, and highlights how important and influencial parental responsiveness and sensitivity is and which parents can benefit most from targeted interventions. The book can certainly be valuable to health care workers, professionals and researchers to enrich their knowlege (and maybe even to a certain group of parents wishing to gain an in-depth scientiic understanding of the workings behind parent-infant interactions and the impact of adressing their infant's needs and cues in a sentive, responsive way).