Infant feeding: the effects of scheduled vs. on-demand feeding on mothers’ wellbeing and children’s cognitive development.
Background: Many popular childcare books recommend feeding babies to a schedule, but no large-scale study has ever examined the effects of schedule-feeding. Here, we examine the relationship between feeding infants to a schedule and two sets of outcomes: mothers’ wellbeing, and children’s longer-ter...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Public Health Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 13 - 20 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2013
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