Early short-term infant food supplementation, maternal weight loss and duration of breast-feeding: a randomised controlled trial in rural Senegal

• Published in: European journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 265 - 271
• Main Authors: Ly, C.T, Diallo, A, Simondon, F, Simondon, K.B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.02.2006; Nature Publishing; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Adult; Baby foods; Biological and medical sciences; Birth; birth interval; body weight; Body weight gain; Body weight loss; Bottle Feeding; Breast; Breast feeding; Breast Feeding - statistics & numerical data; Breastfeeding & lactation; Clinical Nutrition; Clinical trials; complementary foods; Confidence intervals; Dietary supplements; duration; Epidemiology; Female; Food; Humans; Infant; Infant Food; infant foods; infant growth; infant nutrition; Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Infants; intent to supplement; Internal Medicine; Lactation; Lactation - physiology; length; maternal nutrition; Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Maternal Welfare; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Mothers; Nutrient solutions; Nutrients; original-article; physiology; Postpartum; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Rate; Proportional Hazards Models; Public Health; Randomization; Regression analysis; Regression models; rural population; Senegal; Short term; Statistical analysis; statistics & numerical data; Time Factors; villages; Weaning; Weight; weight gain; Weight Loss; Weight Loss - physiology; Senegal; Africa; controlled trials; complementary feeding; birth intervals; maternal nutrition; lactation; Africa; Short term; Rural environment; Lactation; Nutrition; Weight loss; Duration; Breast feeding; Birth; Feeding; Mother; Infant food; Clinical trial; Early; Time interval; Supplementation

Objective: Early supplementation of breastfed infants may have consequences both for the mother and the child. We hypothesised that it would result in decreased maternal weight loss and in shorter durations of breastfeeding and birth intervals. Design: Controlled randomised population-based trial. S...