The phrase "avoid infant" is grammatically correct but may not be commonly used in written English without context.
It can be used in contexts where one is advising against something related to infants, such as in safety guidelines or parenting advice.
Example: "In this area, it is important to avoid infant exposure to loud noises to protect their hearing."
Alternatives: "keep infants away" or "prevent infant access".
All respondents were willing to pay significantly more to avoid infant disease compared to vaccine adverse events or adolescent/adult disease.
Pre lacteal feeding was common due to perceived traditional practices like, softening the stomach of the baby, breast milk insufficiencies, to avoid infant abdominal cramp.
Although we cannot control for the number of older siblings that were actually alive, it seems clear that large families were less able to avoid infant mortality.
Women with active cutaneous anthrax lesions on the breast should avoid infant contact and not breast-feed from the affected breast until after 48 hours of appropriate antimicrobial drug therapy.
In our study, the use of gloves during delivery and hand washing during and after delivery were mentioned infrequently, despite repeated discussion of the need for cleanliness to avoid infant infections.
They agreed that promoting healthy pregnancies and avoiding infant deaths and birth defects was more important than fretting over a woman's immigration status.
Increasing numbers of maternity providers are encouraging pregnant women with diabetes to express and store breast milk (colostrum) in the last weeks before their expected delivery date, 33 38 so that breast milk is available in the postpartum period, thereby possibly avoiding infant formula if neonatal hypoglycaemia needs management with supplementary formula feeding.
For normally formed late preterm infants, desire to avoid separating infants and mothers and the perception that they are unlikely to require significantly different newborn care from term-born infants have meant that many receive care on postnatal wards.
Witness, for example, recent changes in how we put babies down, on their backs, to avoid sudden infant death syndrome or how we discipline toddlers, say, with "time out" instead of paddles.
Other advice arising from the national study was to avoid placing infants on their side to sleep, 3 to avoid excessive bedding and clothing, 3 and to keep infants in a smoke-free zone.
The NHS offers advice for avoiding sudden infant death syndrome: Place your baby on their back to sleep, in a cot in the same room as you for the first six months.
