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Materno {u2013} infant nutritional status interrelation during the first two years of life /

Ahmed Mahmoud Zaky Mohamed

Materno infant nutritional status interrelation during the first two years of life / العلاقة المتبادلة بين الحالة الغذائية للأطفال الرضع والأم في أول سنتين من العمر Ahmed Mahmoud Zaky Mohamed ; Supervised Mona Hassan Hafez , Abeer Atef Elashmawy , Nayera Elmorsi Hassan - Cairo : Ahmed Mahmoud Zaky Mohamed , 2014 - 171 P. : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics

Breast milk provides the ideal nutrition for infants. Infants who are breastfed exclusively for the first six months have fewer infections. Also, breastfeeding has been linked to higher IQ scores in later childhood and more likely to gain the right amount of weight and reducing the risk of obesity. This work was designed to evaluate the anthropo- metric measurements in infants less than two years of age in relation to different types of infant feeding and time of weaning also study the relation between mother nutrition and infant anthropometry



Infant feeding and nutrition Infant growth Maternal feeding and nutrition