Observations of Postnatal Developmental Activity in Infants with Fetal Malnutrition

The identification and long term effects of fetal growth restriction

“…Those that have find mixed results. Mothers of these babies have been reported to be more neurotic than those of stable‐growing infants when the children were five years of age 34 , and to have high levels of negative feedback in interaction when the children were one year old 62 ; these findings might reflect the experience of having a child born IUGR, rather than anything different about the parents. Another study found no differences in neuroticism scores between mothers of AGA and SGA infants when measured at birth 63 .…”

A Lean Argument: Reply to Scanlon

“…Of these, experimenter measurement of length as specified by Miller and Hassanein (1971) was used to calculate the PI in three studies (Als, Tronick, Adamson, & Brazelton, 1976;Goggin, Holmes, Hassanein, & Lansky, 1978;Zeskind, 1981). To our knowledge, the current study under scrutiny is the eleventh published paper showing behavioral effects related to the PI.…”

Effects of Atypical Patterns of Fetal Growth on Newborn (NBAS) Behavior

“…The cries of these infants deviate from normal cry patterns on acoustic cry features (Lester, 1979;Lester & Zeskind, 1978;Zeskind, 1981;Zeskind & Lester, 1981) that have been correlated with nonoptirnal developmental outcome in other populations (Lester, 1984). Low-PI infants elicit more negative feedback from their parents than do average-PI infants (Goggin, Holmes, Hassanein, & Lansky, 1978) and show lower IQ scores at 36 months than do controls (Zeskind & Ramey, 1981).…”