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Maternal Health Behaviours During Pregnancy And Associations With Infant Feeding Factors, Roslyn Tarrant, Katherine Younger, Margaret Sheridan-Pereira, John Kearney
Maternal Health Behaviours During Pregnancy And Associations With Infant Feeding Factors, Roslyn Tarrant, Katherine Younger, Margaret Sheridan-Pereira, John Kearney
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Maternal health behaviours during pregnancy and associations with postnatal infant feeding practices
Objectives: To examine modifiable maternal health behaviours during pregnancy, including folic acid use peri-conceptually, smoking and alcohol consumption patterns, and relate these factors to maternal postnatal infant feeding practices.
Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study involved the recruitment of 539 pregnant women from a Dublin maternity hospital. Following application of exclusion criteria, 450 mothers were followed up at 6 weeks and 6 months postpartum. Quantitative data on folic acid use, as well as mothers’ smoking and alcohol consumption patterns during pregnancy were collected from the antenatal questionnaire. …