Influence of mother’s age on infant child’s nutrition

Abstract

In order to study the influence of the mother’s age on thenutrition of children of the first year of life-based on 7 St. Petersburgchildren’s polyclinics, it was conducted a randomsample survey of 1742 mothers who had 1-year-old children.The study found that in obstetric hospitals 20-24 years oldand 40 and older years old mothers planned to breastfeed achild for the longest time, but 18 to 35 years old mothers continuedbreastfeeding for the longest time. With maternal ageincreasing the proportion of refusals of breastfeeding growsdue to the lack of milk and with the need to study or work, butthe proportion of refusals related to the unwillingness of themother to continue breastfeeding decreases. Assessment ofthe impact of age on the timing of the introduction of complementaryfoods in the child’s diet showed that the older themother is, the later she introduces the first and second complementaryfoods. Mothers under 20 and over 40 were morelikely than mothers of other age groups to introduce meat andfish puree later than it is recommended. Almost all mothersunder 20 gave children cottage cheese paste and egg yolk atthe optimal time, unlike women of other age groups, who introducedthese products later. With the increase of the mother’sage, the proportion of children who received fermentedmilk products in the recommended period increases and theproportion who received them later decreases. Thus, the ageof the mother has a significant impact on the nutrition of childrenin their first year.