Reflections on "breastfeeding and dietary intake" survey in birth cohort studies / 中华围产医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Here we try to explore the nutrition issues in existing birth cohort studies, and give suggestions to future cohorts, which including pregnant and lactating mothers and their babies, on nutritional survey, the way to collect breast milk samples, breast milk composition analysis and breastfeeding patterns. Also, we put forward some aspects for researchers to consider on the follow-up timepoints of children, design of mother-child dyads, and dietary intake and feeding or eating behavior of those babies in relevant cohort studies.