Perinatal Nutrition: Optimizing Infant Health & Development

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Jatinder Bhatia
CRC Press, 2004 M12 27 - 392 pages
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,

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Contents

Chapter 1 Periconceptional Nutrition and Infant Outcomes
1
Chapter 2 Nutritional Requirements During Pregnancy and Lactation
15
Chapter 3 Maternal Nutrition for Normal Intrauterine Growth
53
Chapter 4 Placenta as a Nutritional Unit
77
Chapter 5 Intrauterine Growth Restriction
111
Chapter 6 Nutritional Infulences on Infant Development
153
Chapter 7 Feeding the Preterm Infant
165
Chapter 8 PostHospitalDischarge Nutrition for the Premature Infant
191
Chapter 10 Introducing Solid Foods to Infants
217
Chapter 11 Growth During the First Year of Life
291
Chapter 12 Prenatal and Infant Nutrition in the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes Implications for Diagnosis and Therapy
307
Chapter 13 Adolescent Nutrition and Preconception During Pregnancy
331
Chapter 14 Artificial Hydration and Nutrition in the Neonate
347
Index
363
Back cover
381
Copyright

Chapter 9 BreastFeeding the Term Infant
203

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