The influence of maternal socioeconomic and emotional factors on infant weight gain and weight faltering (failure to thrive): data from a prospective birth cohort
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AIMS: To study the influence of maternal socioeconomic and emotional factors on infant weight gain and weight faltering (failure to thrive) in the first year of life. METHODS: The Gateshead Millennium Baby Study is a population birth cohort in northeast England studied prospectively from birth, via parental questionnaires and a health check aged 13 months. Data were collected on maternal education, deprivation, eating attitudes, and depression, using the Edinburgh Post Natal Depression Scale (EPDS) at 3 months. Weight gain was assessed using change in weight SD score, conditional on birth weight (Thrive Index); weight faltering was defined as conditional weight gain below the 5th centile. RESULTS: Of 923 eligible infants born at term, 774 (84%) had both weight and questionnaire data. Replicating a previous finding, both the highest and the lowest levels of deprivation were associated with weight faltering; this was independent of the type of milk feeding. No relation was found with maternal educational status. Maternal eating restraint was unrelated to weight gain. Infants of mothers with high depression symptom scores (EPDS >12) had significantly slower weight gain and increased rates of weight faltering up to 4 months (relative risk 2.5), especially if they came from deprived families, but by 12 months they were no different from the remainder of the cohort. CONCLUSIONS: In this setting, social and maternal characteristics had little influence on infants' weight gain, apart from a strong, but transient effect of postnatal depression.
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Differences in infant weight between depressed and nondepressed mothers in the first months of life did not persist.
“Two other studies (one in the United Kingdom125 and one in Nigeria119) showed that while there were differences in infant weight in the first months of life, they did not persist.”
From Consequences of maternal postpartum depression: A systematic review of maternal and infant outcomes (2019) · cites this paper as [125]
Maternal PPD seemed to have few associations with the weight and length of infants in high-income countries except during the transient period at the beginning of the newborn's life.
“Maternal PPD seemed to have few associations with the weight and length of infants in high-income countries100,113 except during the transient period at the beginning of the newborn’s life.125”
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- Authors
- Wright, C. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Wright, C M
- Venue
- Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2006-01-11
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 312-317
- ISSN
- 0003-9888 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2044
- PMC
- PMC2065961
- OpenAlex
- W2171131513
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 4.05
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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- Locations
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Infant Nutrition and Health
- Keywords
- infant weight gain, failure to thrive, maternal socioeconomic status, maternal deprivation, maternal education, maternal depression, postpartum depression, infant feeding
- MeSH terms
- Educational Status, Epidemiologic Methods, Failure to Thrive, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Infant, Poverty, Socioeconomic Factors, Weight Gain, Child of Impaired Parents, Depression, Postpartum
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