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ISBN: 978-0-521-88709-0
Page count: 208
Publisher: Cambridge UP
Publication year: 2010
Improving clinicians' understanding of effects nutrition can have on maternal health and fetal and neonatal development can have considerable impact on achieving a healthy pregnancy and reducing childhood morbidity. This book defines the nutritional requirements with regard to each stage of fetal development and growth, placing scientific developments into a clinical context.
Clinicians and scientists discuss: how the fetus grows and what macro- and micronutrients it requires; what happens when there is nutrient deficiency and when placental development is abnormal; aspects of infant feeding, both with breast milk and formula milk. Specific problems encountered in pregnancy that pose a nutritional challenge are also considered, including pregnancy in teenagers, multiple pregnancies and pregnancy in those who are vegetarians or vegans.
All doctors, health-care workers or scientists who either care for women, their newborn and growing infants, or who are involved in research in these areas, will find this to be essential reading.
Table of contents:
Part I. Nutritional Regulation and Requirements for Pregnancy and Fetal Growth:
1. Maternal adaptations to pregnancy and the role of the placenta
2. Pregnancy and feto-placental growth: macronutrients
3. Mineral requirements of the mother and conceptus
4. Individualized growth curves and size at birth
5. Maternal diets in the developing world
6. Pre-eclampsia
Part II. Nutritional Regulation and Requirements for Lactation and Infant Growth:
7. Macronutrients for lactation and infant growth
8. Changes in nutrient requirements with age after birth
9. Comparison between preterm and term infants
10. Influences of timing and duration of formula feeding on infant growth
11. Maternal and offspring benefits of breastfeeding
Part III. Specialized Requirements:
12. Teenage pregnancies
13. Vegetarians and vegans during pregnancy and lactation
14. Hyperemesis in pregnancy
15. Multiple pregnancy
16. Mineral and vitamin supplementation before, during and after conception
17. Determinants of egg and embryo quality: long term effects of maternal diet and assisted reproduction
18. Nutrition, environment and epigenetics
