MATERNAL AND INFANT NUTRITION

Case: 30-year-old woman: before during and after pregnancy

  • Nutrition in cell growth, organ, and neurological development
  • Nutrition and teratogenesis
  • Pregnancy nutrition assessment: history, physical, laboratory tests, dietary intake, family resources nutrient requirements
  • Lactation - advantages, recommendations, nutrient requirements
  • Infant feeding/nutrient requirements for infants
  • Low-birth-weight infants
  • Composition of breast milk and infant formulas
  • Introduction of solid food
  • Nutrition assessment of infants - history, physical (anthropometry), laboratory tests
  • Failure to thrive
  • Community nutrition & preventive nutrition programs
  • Ethnic and cultural influences on family dietary practices

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