Questions about infant activity and television viewing are being used from other published studies [ 65, 66].
The BFHI was implemented as part of a wider programme of maternal and infant activity and raised awareness of breastfeeding and supportive practices.
The survey was organized to assess four domains: (a) physical indicators (11 items); (b) facial actions (10 items); (c) vocal behaviour/cry (9 items); (d) infant activity (9 items).
Mothers are also taught how to use "Tummy Time" to enhance infant activity and development and how to avoid television viewing.
(A ) Adult activity is overlaid onto a standard T1 weighted MNI template and (B ) infant activity is overlaid onto a standard T2 weighted neonatal template, corresponding to a 40-week gestation infant.
Infant activity at each stimulus intensity level (thresholded at z = 2.3 with a corrected cluster significance level of p < 0.05) was used to mask the neonatal atlas (Shi et al., 2011).
We are confident that the JA items are valid measures of the skill, as they included both the coordination of attention (demonstrated by gaze alternation between the examiner's face and the test object: see SI, Figures S7 and S8), and the coordination of infant activity with that of the social partner (demonstrated by passing the items; Striano & Reid, 2009; Wieder & Greenspan, 2003).
Implementation of the mother-infant activities during each visit was documented on check lists by the Nurture Specialists.
Mother-infant activities in the NICU, with or without Nurture Specialist support, were also self-recorded by FNI mothers with the aid of a NICU visit log.
Although feeding is a critical mother-infant interaction, feeding was not included as one of the facilitated mother-infant activities because the NICU employed a feeding specialist for all mothers.
This room was an ideal place for video capture of infants' activity to support the research aims of examining how educators recognize cultural worlds and transitory relationships of babies and toddlers and how educators may relate to such moments pedagogically.
