Infant and Young Child Feeding

by Dykes, Fiona; Hall-Moran, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9781405187213
• ISBN10: 1405187212
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-05
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This exciting book, edited by Fiona Dykes and Victoria Hall Moran and with a foreword from Gretel Pelto, explores in an integrated context the varied factors associated with infant and child nutrition, including global feeding strategies, cultural factors, issues influencing breastfeeding, and economic and life cycle influences

Author Biography

Dr Victoria Hall-Moran is a researcher in MAINN and MA Course Leader in Midwifery & Neonatal Studies at UCLan, Preston. She is a physiologist whose research interests are in the area of infant and maternal health and nutrition. Victoria is a Senior Editor of our journal Maternal and Child Nutrition.

Fiona Dykes is Professor of Maternal and Infant Health and MAINN at UCLan, Preston. Her research focuses upon the social, political and economic influences upon infant feeding practices, globally. Fiona has a particular interest in the infant feeding experiences of women within socially excluded settings

Table of Contents

Contributor biographies	p. ix
Foreword	p. xv
From Grand Design to Change on the Ground: Going to Scale with a Global Feeding Strategy	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
How it all began	p. 5
Grasping the global challenge	p. 8
Summary recommendations	p. 20
Conclusion	p. 23
References	p. 23
A Biocultural Basis for Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding	p. 32
Introduction	p. 32
WHO/UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative	p. 32
A biocultural approach to institutional change	p. 36
Conclusion	p. 38
References	p. 40
Feeding Preterm Infants in Sweden: Challenges to Implementing the Global Strategy in a Pro-Breastfeeding Culture	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
Breastfeeding preterm babies in Sweden	p. 44
Breastfeeding as relationship building in the early phase	p. 46
Breastfeeding at the 'training camp'	p. 48
Breastfeeding at home - trying to experience a balance in needs	p. 52
Paradigm shift	p. 55
Conclusion	p. 55
References	p. 56
From 'to Learn' to 'To Know': Women's Embodied Knowledge of Breastfeeding in Japan	p. 59
Inroduction	p. 59
The study	p. 61
Social and historical background	p. 62
Breastfeeding as bodily experience: findings from Japanese women's narratives	p. 66
Discussion and implications	p. 77
Conclusion	p. 77
References	p. 78
Breastfeeding and Poverty: Negotiating Cultural Change and Symbolic Capital of Motherhood in Québec, Canada	p. 80
Introduction	p. 80
Social experience of breastfeeding	p. 88
Contextualising our study	p. 91
Conclusion	p. 95
Acknowledgements	p. 96
References	p. 96
Achieving Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices: Case Studies from Tanzania and Rwanda	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Infant feeding practices among mothers of unknown HIV status in Tanzania	p. 101
Infant feeding practices among HIV+ mothers in Rwanda	p. 108
Conclusion: bridging the gap between policy and actual practice to promote optimal infant feeding practices	p. 115
References	p. 116
Bodies in the Making: Reflections on Women's Consumption Practices in Pregnancy	p. 119
Introduction	p. 119
Background	p. 120
Study aims, design and methodology	p. 124
Consumption in pregnancy: socioeconomic grouping and autonomy	p. 125
Consumption in pregnancy: prohibitions and exclusions	p. 130
Consumption in pregnancy: cravings, calories and weight management	p. 136
Autonomy and sociocultural constraints on choice and consumption	p. 138
Conclusion	p. 140
References	p. 142
Homeless Mothers and Their Children: Two Generations at Nutritional Risk	p. 146
Introduction	p. 146
Defining homelessness	p. 147
Homelessness in the UK and homeless mothers	p. 147
The use of temporary accommodation in the UK	p. 148
Homelessness and the health of mothers	p. 149
Nutrition and homeless mothers	p. 150
Homelessness and child feeding	p. 155
The Global Strategy for Infant and Child Feeding and homeless mothers in the UK - bridging the gap between policy and practice	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 159
References	p. 160
Lifecycle Influences and Opportunities for Change	p. 163
Introduction	p. 163
Disease risk, genotype and phenotype	p. 164
Low birth weight	p. 165
How strong is the link between birth size and chronic disease?	p. 166
Maternal nutritional influences on nutritional phenotype of the newborn	p. 167
Putative mechanism of phenotypic induction	p. 171
Nutritional status of the child: impact of early growth	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 176
References	p. 177
Use of Economics to Analyse Policies to Promote Breastfeeding	p. 181
Introduction	p. 181
Economic considerations	p. 181
Economic terminology	p. 183
Economic framework for assessing infant and young child nutrition and feeding strategies	p. 186
Economic analysis of global breastfeeding strategy	p. 190
Conclusion	p. 195
References	p. 196
Complex Challenges to Implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding	p. 197
References	p. 200
Index	p. 202
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