Pregnancy and Infant/Child Nutrition

Natural Health Remedies - Pregnancy issues and nutrition. Infant and childhood nutrition for the prevention and treatment of disease and ailments.

Children and Television - Helping Your Child Lose Weight
According to US researchers who followed 550 children aged 11 to 13 over a period of 20 months, for each hour they spent watching television, their food intake was found at the end of the period to have increased by 167 calories a day. The study was published in the Archives of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine...Read full article


Pregnancy and Vitamin D Deficiency
It is well recognised that maternal vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and during the period of breastfeeding contributes to the development of rickets in infancy. However, seizures in infants during the first month after birth caused by a deficiency of calcium in the blood, as a consequence of maternal vitamin D deficiency is not well described in western societies...Read full article


Dealing with Depression during Pregnancy – Part 1
Background Information - Pregnancy and Severe Depression
Canadian researchers, reporting in BMC Women's Health September 2007, explored the experiences of 19 women in Ontario who were diagnosed with depression during their pregnancy...Read full article


Depression During Pregnancy – Part 2
Depression During Pregnancy - The potential side effect of many drugs having the ability to cause defects in a developing fetus and the behavioral impact of antidepressant use on the infant...Read full article


Women With Depression During Pregnancy – Part 3
The women who have had anxiety and depression during pregnancy talk about their experiences...Read full article


Pregnancy: Depression, Antidepressant Drugs and The Baby – Part 4
Depression During Pregnancy – Depression Deepens – Doubt: Can they cope throughout the pregnancy and after the baby is born. Perceived consequences of depression and antidepressant use and the baby. Conflicting information provided by physicians and psychiatrists...Read full article


Pregnancy and Depression Seeking Support – Part 5
Management and treatment of their depression. Support from husbands, parents, siblings and friends? Their husbands accompanied them, on at least one occasion, to the psychiatrist, and participated in discussions about treatment strategies. However, being seen by their husbands as...Read full article


Dealing With Depression During Pregnancy – Part 6
Whether or not to take antidepressants drugs was a difficult decision. Receiving a definitive diagnosis, while difficult for some women, created a sense of relief and hope, and was a turning point for the women: it signified an identifiable, manageable disorder, justified and explained how they were feeling, and created a sense of relief, comfort, and hope upon hearing that they were “not the only one” to feel this way. Many of the women had knowledge of postpartum depression, but few knew that depression could occur during pregnancy. One woman summed up this turning point as follows:...Read full article


Depression During Pregnancy Regaining Control – Part 7
Depression During Pregnancy: Consequences of Becoming the best mom that I can – Re-grounding self and regaining control. Re-grounding self and regaining control describes the consequences of the strategies undertaken in confining the threat. All women had undergone counseling; ten took antidepressant medication during pregnancy, five commenced antidepressant medication within two months of delivering, and one woman delayed commencing antidepressant medication until she had weaned her baby. Three women elected not to use antidepressants at anytime during the pre- and postpartum periods. The properties of this category are: Being in a better place and Knowing self...Read full article


Kids and Calcium, Eat your Cereal!
Increasing a child's calcium intake can be as simple as reaching for a box of cereal. Scientists at the ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) at Baylor College of Medicine have completed a study involving 27 Houston-area children, ages 6 to 9...Read full article


Leptin to be added to Formula Milk and Other Foods
By Kevin Flatt
Formula milk and other foods may be supplemented with leptin hormone to prevent obesity according to researchers. A team of researchers at the Clore Laboratory at the University of Buckingham, led by Dr Mike Cawthorne, are looking at adding leptin to formula milk and other foods...Read full article


Eating less fat may be unhealthy for children
By Kevin Flatt
The current obsession with low fat diets may have unhealthy implications for children under the age of 2. The following media releases highlight the importance of not eliminating fat in children’s diets and parents eating habits often influence the eating behaviour of their children...Read full article