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Early Feeding Problems in an Affluent Society
Author(s) -
DAHL M.,
EKLUND G.,
SUNDELIN C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1986.tb10218.x
Subject(s) - medicine , grandparent , anxiety , breast feeding , pediatrics , pregnancy , infant feeding , medical record , interview , health problems , demography , family medicine , developmental psychology , psychiatry , psychology , sociology , biology , genetics , radiology , political science , law
. The aim of this investigation was to identify different factors of importance for the occurrence of feeding problems during the first year of life. Forty‐two infants, 3‐12 months old, with feeding problems without any obvious medical explanation were matched to 42 controls with respect to age, sex and Child Health Centre (CHC) affiliation. Information was obtained by interviewing the parents and from medical records. Four factors emerged as being highly significant, namely “feeding problems presented by the parents during their own infancy” (p< 0.001), “great anxiety experienced by the mother during the pregnancy” (p<0.02), “breast‐feeding problems experienced by the mother” (p<0.001) and “ill‐health in the mother” (p<0.001). A special study in which the maternal and paternal grandparents were interviewed, corroborated the parents’information on their own early feeding difficulties. This finding could explain a large proportion of the feeding problems that have no obvious medical origin.