Front cover; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1. Periconceptional Nutrition and Infant Outcomes; Chapter 2. Nutritional Requirements During Pregnancy and Lactation; Chapter 3. Maternal Nutrition for Normal Intrauterine Growth; Chapter 4. Placenta as a Nutritional Unit; Chapter 5. Intrauterine Growth Restriction; Chapter 6. Nutritional Infulences on Infant Development; Chapter 7. Feeding the Preterm Infant; Chapter 8. Post-Hospital-Discharge Nutrition for the Premature Infant; Chapter 9. Breast-Feeding the Term Infant; Chapter 10. Introducing Solid Foods to Infants
Chapter 11. Growth During the First Year of LifeChapter 12. Prenatal and Infant Nutrition in the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes Implications for Diagnosis and Therapy; Chapter 13. Adolescent Nutrition and Preconception During Pregnancy; Chapter 14. Artificial Hydration and Nutrition in the Neonate; Index; Back cover
Summary
Perinatal Nutrition describes the role of nutrition in newborn growth and development, the reduction of health risks, and the prevention of morbidity in the neonatal period and infancy. This important reference presents valuable nutritional strategies for the care of perinatal patients from preconception through infancy and after hospital release, and analyzes in-hospital and post discharge methods to promote infant growth. The book investigates the positive effects of calcium, protein, and other micronutrients on infant development as well as the mechanisms, function, and impact of a wide ran
