Breastfeeding Basics: Growth & Development

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants should be able to accurately assess the growth of breastfed infants.

2. Participants should be able to assess the available data on breastfeeding and developmental outcomes and be able to apply this in their counseling of families.

Contents of This Module

1. Pre-module Evaluation

2. The Growth of Term Infants
   • Growth of Breastfed Infants in the Developed World
   • The World Health Organization Working Group on Infant Growth
   • The Growth of Infants in the Developing World
   • WHO Growth Standards
   • Case study 7
   • Case study 8
   • Breastfeeding and Childhood Obesity

3. The Development of Term Breast Fed Infants
   • The 1929 Hoefer study
   • More recent studies
   • Early outcomes
   • Later outcomes
   • Development of Term Breastfed Small for Gestational Age Infants
   • Breastfeeding, Developmental Outcomes and Genetics
   • What do these studies mean?

4. The Growth and Development of Preterm Infants
   • The Growth of Late Preterm Infants
   • The Growth of Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants
   • The Growth of Very Low Birth Weight Infants
   • Case study 9
   • The Development of Breast Fed Preterm Infants
   • Case study 10

5. Post-module Evaluation

6. References