B2127 - Maternal mental health and infant development at one year association with breastfeeding - 19/12/2013
Aims:
1) To investigate whether attitudes towards breastfeeding and intention to breastfeed (at 32 weeks gestation) are related to maternal mental health during pregnancy (at age 18 and 32 weeks gestation).
2) To investigate whether antenatal attitudes towards breastfeeding are related to the amount of breastfeeding postnatally.
3) To investigate whether postnatal mental health (8 weeks postnatal) is related to the amount of breastfeeding.
4) To analyse whether type of infant feeding, independent of maternal mental health (prenatal and postnatal) is associated with child development (cognitive, behavioural and emotional) at 1 year, allowing for a range of confounders (SES, prenatal smoking, prenatal alcohol, BW, GA, infant growth, family support, parent's education).
5) To investigate to what extent breastfeeding may contribute to cognitive and emotional child development after allowing for a range of confounders (SES, maternal mood, infant growth, family support, parent's education).