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Edition 6: Winter 2011

Featuring: 
Preterm Nutrition Post-Discharge

Written by: 
Roberta McCarthy, Clinical Specialist Dietitian (Neonatology)

Roberta McCarthy is a dietitian based at The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin and specialises in Neonatology.

This article is explores the the role of nutrition in caring for preterm babies and provides some practical advice for healthcare professionals seeing preterm babies in the community. The article is a comprehensive guide to the nutritional considerations when dealing with preterm babies post-discharge, including:

• Current recommendations
• Breastfeeding
• Feeding patterns
• Catch-up growth
• Important nutrients
• Weaning
• Monitoring

Other features include the launch of the new preterm guide book for parents: 'Newborn Infants & the Special Care Baby Unit' and a recently published Irish study on the Diets of Women during Pregnancy.

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Edition 5: Summer 2011

Featuring: 
Obesity and Pregnancy 

Written by: 
Professor Michael Turner, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 

Professor Turner is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the UCD Centre for Human Reproduction, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin.

This article is based on the National Obesity and Pregnancy Clinical Practice Guideline, published in April 2011, by the Royal College of Physicians Ireland and the HSE.

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Edition 4: Spring 2011

Featuring:
Maternal Maternal Health Behaviours & Infant Feeding Practices 

Written by:
Dr Roslyn Tarrant, PhD, Clinical Paediatric and Research Dietitian.

A prospective observational study was carried out in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital (CWIUH). This Dublin-based study aimed to provide up-to-date Irish-specific data on existing knowledge gaps on a wide range of areas including:

• Alcohol consumption & smoking behaviours during pregnancy
• Breastfeeding rates
• The weaning diet at 6 months
• The relationship between type of infant feeding practice & adverse clinical outcomes in infants
• Maternal and infant nutritional supplementation patterns

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Edition 3: Winter 2010

Featuring:
Colic, Constipation and other Minor Feeding Problems

Written by:
Dr Victoria Davies, Registered Nutritionist, UK.

Dr Davies brings you through the various feeding problems that many infants experience during the first year of life. With colic being the most common, and up to 40% infants experiencing consitpation  in the first 6 months along - this article offers some insight into the reasons why, and the elements that can contribute - as well as alleviate symptoms.

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Edition 2: Summer 2010

Featuring:
Vitamin D, Pregnancy and Early Life

Written by: Alice Lucey, PhD, RPHNutr, Siobhan Muldowney, ANutr, & Mairead Kiely, PhD, RPHNutr
Vitamin D Research Group, University College Cork.

Since 2004, the Vitamin D Research Group, led by Prof Kevin Cashman and Dr Mairead Kiely at the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences UCC, has been carrying out research into the nutritional requirements and health effects of vitamin D in population groups, including younger and older adults, adolescents, schoolchildren, pregnant women and infants.

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Edition 1: Autumn 2009

Featuring:
Hypertension in Pregnancy and Pre-eclampsia

Written by:
Andrew Shennan
&
Danielle Abbott

Professor Andrew Shennan is Professor of Obstetrics at King’s College London. He leads the clinical research programme within the Maternal and Fetal Research Unit (MFRU) into the causes of low birthweight and pre-eclampsia.