ArticlePediatric obesity2021
Learning to overeat in infancy: Concurrent and prospective relationships between maternal BMI, feeding practices and child eating response among Hispanic mothers and children.
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- Parenting Practices to Prevent Childhood Obesity Among Hispanic Families: A Systematic Literature Review.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive Stimulation and Maternal Feeding Styles in Families with Low Incomes: Impacts from a Randomized Clinical Trial.Academic pediatrics · 2025Trial
- The Baby's First Bites RCT: Evaluating a Vegetable-Exposure and a Sensitive-Feeding Intervention in Terms of Child Health Outcomes and Maternal Feeding Behavior During Toddlerhood.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Trial
- Early infant appetitive traits are associated with growth status and adiposity in African-American infants and toddlers.Annals of human biology · 2025Article
- Determinants of overweight and obesity and other cardiometabolic risks in adolescents: a Spanish longitudinal birth study.Pediatric research · 2025Article
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- Do Appetite Traits Mediate the Link Between Birth Weight and Later Child Weight in Low-Income Hispanic Families?Childhood obesity (Print) · 2023Article
- Maternal responsiveness and toddler body mass index z-score: Prospective analysis of maternal and child mealtime interactions.Appetite · 2023Article
- Integration of Time-Based Recommendations with Current Pediatric Health Behavior Guidelines: Implications for Obesity Prevention and Treatment in Youth.Current obesity reports · 2022Review
- "Struggle at night - He doesn't let me sleep sometimes": a qualitative analysis of sleeping habits and routines of Hispanic toddlers at risk for obesity.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundParents play a key role in shaping children's eating behaviours and self-regulation. There is limited data on how maternal weight influences feeding practices in the first year of life.
objectiveTo examine the relationships between maternal BMI, feeding practices and infant eating behaviours related to self-regulation.
methodsParticipants were 160 mother-infant dyads. A longitudinal design was used to examine concurrent and prospective associations between maternal 6-month postpartum BMI, mothers' feeding practices at 6 months (Infant Feeding Practices Questionnaire) and children's eating behaviours at 6 months (Baby Eating Behaviour Questionnaire) and 12 months (Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire).
resultsHigher maternal BMI was associated positively with mothers' use of restrictive feeding practices (β = 0.036, p = 0.033), and inversely with responsivity to infant satiety cues (Spearman partial r = -0.249, p = 0.002) at 6 months. Mother's restrictive feeding practices were associated with infant food responsiveness (β = 0.157, p = 0.009) and emotional overeating (β = 0.118, p = 0.005) at 12 months. Maternal use of responsive feeding practices was associated with lower infant food responsiveness at 6 months (Spearman partial r = -0.173, p = 0.031) and lower emotional overeating at 12 months (Spearman partial r = -0.183, p = 0.022).
conclusionsOur findings add to studies suggesting that feeding practices can provide mechanistic pathways in the intergenerational transmission of obesity. Postpartum family-system approaches focusing on maternal health while integrating infant feeding guidance may confer benefits in improving maternal-child health.
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