Prevention of Overfeeding During Infancy

University of California, Davis231 enrolled

Overview

The overall goal of this project is to identify strategies to prevent overfeeding during infancy. One objective is to evaluate the impact on intake of allowing the infant greater control over the amount consumed when feeding from a bottle. This will be accomplished via the use of a novel nipple that mimics (functionally) the nipple of a human breast and allows the infant to self-regulate milk flow. The second objective is to evaluate the relationship between parental feeding styles and infant intake.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

231

Conditions

Obesity

Interventions

Use of baby bottle nippleBEHAVIORAL

Participants will be assigned to either a novel nipple or a conventional nipple to use when feeding their infants with the bottle

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMax age: 3 MonthsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Infant born at \> 37 weeks gestation * Infant weighed \>2500 g at birth * Infant is apparently healthy * Mother speaks English * Mother is 18 years of age or older * Mother/infant pair lives within a 10-mile radius around the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA * Mother plans to use a bottle (at least occasionally) to feed her infant before he/she is 3 months old.

Locations (1)

University of California, Davis Medical Center

Sacramento, California, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Intake

Time frame: per feed

Secondary Outcomes

Growth

Time frame: 4 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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