Perinatal Nutrition: Optimizing Infant Health & Development

by Jatinder Bhatia (Editor)

Overview

Perinatal Nutrition describes the role of nutrition in newborn growth and development, the reduction of health risks, and the prevention of morbidity in the neonatal period and infancy. This important reference presents valuable nutritional strategies for the care of perinatal patients from preconception through infancy and after hospital release, and analyzes in-hospital and post discharge methods to promote infant growth. The book investigates the positive effects of calcium, protein, and other micronutrients on infant development as well as the mechanisms, function, and impact of a wide range of nutrients and provides recommendations for iron and vitamin intake based on maternal BMI.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824754747
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/27/2004
Series:	Nutrition and Disease Prevention , #2
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jatinder Bhatia

Table of Contents

Contributors, Chapter 1. Periconceptional Nutrition and Infant Outcomes, Chapter 2. Nutritional Requirements During Pregnancy and Lactation, Chapter 3. Maternal Nutrition for Normal Intrauterine Growth, Chapter 4. Placenta as a Nutritional Unit, Chapter 5. Intrauterine Growth Restriction, Chapter 6. Nutritional Infulences on Infant Development, Chapter 7. Feeding the Preterm Infant, Chapter 8. Post-Hospital-Discharge Nutrition for the Premature Infant, Chapter 9. Breast-Feeding the Term Infant, Chapter 10. Introducing Solid Foods to Infants, Chapter 11. Growth During the First Year of Life, Chapter 12. Prenatal and Infant Nutrition in the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes Implications for Diagnosis and Therapy, Chapter 13. Adolescent Nutrition and Preconception During Pregnancy, Chapter 14. Artificial Hydration and Nutrition in the Neonate, Index

Editorial Reviews

"At a time when literature on the influence of intrauterine nutritional status is important to late postnatal health status, this text is very timely and recommended."
Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 1, Sept. 2005

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