1st Edition

Perinatal Nutrition Optimizing Infant Health & Development

Edited By Jatinder Bhatia Copyright 2004
    392 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    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, and analyzes in-hospital and post discharge methods to promote infant growth. The book investigates the positive effects of calcium, protein, and other micronutrients on infant development as well as the mechanisms, function, and impact of a wide range of nutrients and provides recommendations for iron and vitamin intake based on maternal BMI.

    Periconceptional Nutrition and Infant Outcomes, Caulfield
    Nutritional Requirements During Pregnancy and Lactation, Picciano
    Maternal Nutrition For Normal Intrauterine Growth, Jones and Devoe
    Placenta as Nutritional Source, Ganapathy
    Intrauterine Growth Restriction, Hay
    Nutrition and Cognitive Development, Heird
    Feeding the Premature Infant, Adamkin
    Nutrition For the Premature Infant After Hospital Discharge, Bhatia
    Breastfeeding the Term Infant, Rassin and Revai
    Introducing Solid Foods to Infants, Baxter
    Growth During the First Year of Life, Vanderhoof and Berseth
    Prenatal and Infant Nutrition in the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes, Muir and She
    Nutritional Needs of Teenage Mothers, Blackwell and Devoe
    Ethical Issues In Neonatal Medicine, Leuthner and Carter

    Biography

    Jatinder Bhatia

    "At a time when literature on the influence of intrauterine nutritional status is important to late postnatal health status, this text is very timely and recommended."
    Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 1, Sept. 2005