Parental distress following the birth of a premature infant diminishes the parent's ability to be sensitive to the infant's cues, and this may affect infant developmental outcomes.
There is a need for brief, cost-effective and timely interventions that address specific processes that may affect infant development.
Thus, the adequacy of prenatal nutrient status was not known, limiting conclusions about how baseline dietary intake and status may affect infant mental development in supplementation trials.
Thus, previous research demonstrates disturbances in the mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression indicating that interaction quality may affect infant development.
There are numerous other interventions administered during pregnancy that may affect infant outcomes; however, these were not captured in this descriptive analysis and may be an interesting focus for future work.
As a result, considerable differences are expected in terms of bioavailability and metabolic effects between the biologically active fragments generated following ingestion of human milk, infant formulas, and hydrolyzed products, which may affect infant growth.
