scholarly journals CONSTRUCTING CONTEMPORARY PARENTHOOD IN DIGITAL SPACES: A WALKTHROUGH OF INFANT FEEDING APPLICATIONS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Langton
Keyword(s):  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
First Year ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
User Resistance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Commercial Feed ◽  
First Year Of Life

Infant feeding and baby tracking apps remain extremely popular mobile applications, downloaded by millions of parents to facilitate the feeding and care of children in their first year of life. These applications are commonly considered as part of a wider ecology of apps to manage reproductive health, which are typically gendered in design. Unsurprisingly, research on infant feeding apps to date has focussed on analysing these applications through a critical feminist lens, problematising the surveillance and disciplining of women’s bodies, since the tracking of infant care tracks the caregiver as much as the baby. These issues relate to broader societal trends around the datafication of family life, as well as participatory and co-surveillance practices, which ultimately support data-dependent surveillance capitalism. Yet, the predominant focus on critical perspectives on these technologies tends to construct their uses as disempowering, and their users as lacking agency. This work-in-progress paper explores how contemporary parenthood is constructed and mediated through the functionalities and technological design of infant feeding apps. It employs a feminist lens, while striking a balance between critical analysis and the identification of opportunities for user resistance, agency and empowerment. The app walkthrough method was used to examine two infant feeding applications, the commercial Feed Baby and the public health-oriented mum2mum. The study’s findings indicate that infant feeding applications are diverse in design and functionalities, providing opportunities for resistance and empowerment, that complicate and challenge understandings of parenting apps as (dis)empowering technologies.

Infant Feeding and Infectious Disease

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 806-807
Author(s):  
CHRIS MULFORD
Keyword(s):  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Research Question ◽  
First Year ◽  
Detailed Data ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Substantial Investment ◽  
Infectious Illness ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
First Year Of Life

To the Editor.— I read with interest the article "Relationship Between Infant Feeding and Infectious Illness: A Prospective Study of Infants During the First Year of Life" by Rubin et al in the April issue.1 Two things puzzle me. The first is that, despite the authors' stated goal of paying close attention to methodology, their definition of breast-feeding fails to meet the standards set forth by most experts on lactation. The second is that, given their substantial investment of time and money in obtaining detailed data on 500 babies for a full year, the authors chose to ask their particular research question.

THE PIMA INFANT FEEDING STUDY: BREAST FEEDING AND GASTROENTERITIS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE

1984 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. FORMAN ◽  
B. I. GRAUBARD ◽  
H. J. HOFFMAN ◽  
R. BEREN ◽  
E. E. HARLEY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
First Year ◽  
Feeding Study ◽  
First Year Of Life

scholarly journals Influence of infant feeding patterns over the first year of life on growth from birth to 5 years

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 94-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Betoko ◽  
S. Lioret ◽  
B. Heude ◽  
R. Hankard ◽  
S. Carles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infant Feeding ◽  
First Year ◽  
Feeding Patterns ◽  
First Year Of Life

The Pima Infant Feeding Study: Breast feeding and Respiratory Infections during the First Year of Life

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
M R FORMAN ◽  
B I GRAUBARD ◽  
H J HOFFMAN ◽  
R BEREIM ◽  
E E HARLEY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
First Year ◽  
Feeding Study ◽  
First Year Of Life

Infant Feeding and Infectious Disease

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 806-806
Author(s):  
FRED AGRE
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
First Year ◽  
Prospective Data ◽  
Infectious Illness ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
First Year Of Life

To the Editor.— In the article "Relationship Between Infant Feeding and Infectious Illness: A Prospective Study of Infants during the First Year of Life" the authors comment on the methodologic failures of other studies.1 These failures include: (1) prospective data on infection and feeding, (2) specifying what is meant by infectious illness and breast-feeding, (3) controlling for other variables, and (4) exposure to illness through time. Such a study accounting for the above methodologic flaws was conducted by me and reported in the American Journal of Diseases of Children.2

Infant Feeding Mode Predicts the Costs of Healthcare Services in One Region of Canada: a Data Linkage Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Kimberlyn Taylor ◽  
Sharmeen Chowdhury ◽  
Zhiwei Gao ◽  
Hai Van Nguyen ◽  
William Midodzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Data Linkage ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mixed Feeding ◽  
Feeding Mode ◽  
Healthcare Service Use ◽  
First Year Of Life

Abstract Background Few studies have examined the association between infant feeding mode (IFM) and costs related to healthcare service use (HSU) in Canada. The aim of this study is to evaluate differences in HSU and its associated costs by IFM, in an infant’s first year of life in one region of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.Methods Data from a prospective cohort study were linked to administrative databases to examine HSU during an infant’s first year of life. The cohort study collected information on peri- and postnatal variables, including IFM during three stages that covered pregnancy through the first year postnatally. Consenting mothers provided their infants health insurance number for a data linkage to examine HSU by the infant. Outcomes included: hospital admissions, emergency room, family doctor and specialist visits. IFM was categorized as exclusively breastfed, mixed fed and exclusively formula fed. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis were performed to examine the relationship between IFM, maternal and child characteristics and costs associated with HSU.Results The sample included 160 mother infant dyads who consented to the data linkage. Mothers were Caucasian (95.6%), 26 years or older (95%), partnered (97.5%), living in a household with income greater than $30,000 CAN (98.1%) with a post-secondary education (97.5%). At one month 67% were exclusively breastfeeding, 20% were mixed feeding, and 13% were exclusively formula feeding. Overall $315,235 was spent on healthcare service use for the sample of healthy full-term infants during their first year of life. Generalized linear modelling was performed to assess the effect of IFM on costs associated with HSU adjusting for confounders. When compared to exclusive breastfeeding, exclusive formula and mixed feeding were found to be significant predictors of the total costs associated with HSU during the first year of life (p <0.05), driven by costs of hospital admissions.Conclusions Due to the human and economic burden associated with not breastfeeding, policies and programs that support and encourage breastfeeding should be a priority for governments and regional health authorities.

Breast-Feeding and Infectious Illness, Power and Confidence Intervals

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 1079-1080
Author(s):  
JUDY HOPKINSON
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Study ◽  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
First Year ◽  
Infectious Illness ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
First Year Of Life ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Breast Fed

The article "Relationship Between Infant Feeding and Infectious Illness: A Prospective Study of Infants During the First Year of Life" by Rubin et al in the April issue of Pediatrics was provocative. Like Mulford, I too am concerned about the definitions of breast-feeding used in the study. Breast-feeding and formula-feeding are defined in such a way that the study actually examines the impact of the degree of breast-feeding on health of breast-fed infants. This may be an important issue in Denmark where the incidence of breast-feeding at 1 month is more than 90%.

Infant Feeding and Feeding Transitions During the First Year of Life

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 122 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. S36-S42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn ◽  
Kelley S. Scanlon ◽  
Sara B. Fein
Keyword(s):  
Infant Feeding ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Of Life
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