Sentence examples for postnatal program from inspiring English sources

Reviews of Indigenous Australian maternal and child health programs have documented evaluations of intervention models and a diversity of antenatal and postnatal program and service components [ 6- 8].

One study evaluating the impact of providing a universal postnatal program found that neither a postnatal telephone call nor a postnatal home visit from a public health worker was associated with continuation of breastfeeding to 4 weeks [ 19].

If the newborns are not able to store large amounts of fat tissue in utero, or if malnutrition is a problem in fetal life (thrifty phenotype model, see above; Table 4), a postnatal program seems to be switched on that supports obesity during childhood and adolescence [ 55, 56].

One possibility is that the postnatal leptin treatment might expunge the programme set during fetal life and then somehow fail to impose the postnatal programming seen in AD/Lep.

In population based postnatal programs this would bring the focus on helping first time mothers to acquire the necessary caregiving skills and to increase their parental self-efficacy, thereby decreasing their sense of helplessness and subjective incompetence.

Maternal obesity can also result in long-term health problems for the offspring, secondary to perinatal problems and to intrauterine and postnatal programming effects [ 7, 8], including an increased obesity risk in childhood and adulthood [ 9].

In contrast, others suggested that the contribution of the mother and the father on both prenatal and postnatal programming of intergenerational obesity may be similar according to the genomic imprinting (5).

Demoralisation also has relevance to population based postnatal programs in directing them towards helping first time mothers to acquire the necessary caregiving skills and to increase their parental self-efficacy, thereby decreasing their sense of helplessness and subjective incompetence [ 12].

Identification of modifiable risk factors that influence postnatal programming of adiposity, appetite, and/or energy regulation mechanisms among GDM offspring is necessary to formulate strategies for prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in this high-risk group.

These factors have not been examined in the existing universal postnatal care program literature, but are likely to vary substantially from program to program.

In 2008, the Queensland Health department established the Universal Postnatal Contact Services program (UPNCS).