Determinants of prolonged exclusive breastfeeding among children aged 6–23 months in 21 sub-saharan African countries: evidence from nationally representative data by Enyew Getaneh Mekonen

“…A total weighted sample of 63,172 mother-child pairs was included in the current study. …”
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Hubungan Anemia dengan Kejadian Bayi Berat Lahir Rendah pada Kehamilan Aterm di RSUD Achmad Darwis Suliki by Maryam Syifaurrahmah Syifaurrahmah, Yusrawati ., Zulkarnain Edward

“…From 73 samples of aterm pregnant mother who had anaemia and non anaemia, known mean of baby weight in normal aterm pregnant mothers who had anaemia is 2722 gram and mean of baby weight from aterm pregnant mothers without anaemia is 2967 gram. …”
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Inequalities in ownership and availability of home-based vaccination records in 82 low- and middle-income countries by Aluísio J D Barros, Cesar G Victora, Daniel R Hogan, M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Bianca O Cata-Preta, Thiago M Santos, Andrea Wendt, Luisa Arroyave, Tewodaj Mengistu

“…We studied levels and inequalities in HBR ownership in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) using data from national surveys conducted since 2010.Methods We used data from national household surveys (Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)) from 82 LMICs. 465 060 children aged 6–35 months were classified into four categories: HBR seen by the interviewer; mother/caregiver never had an HBR; mother/caregiver had an HBR that was lost; and reportedly have an HBR that was not seen by the interviewer. …”
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Sex differences in delivery and neonatal characteristics of new-borns from the “MAMI-MED” cohort by Roberta Magnano San Lio, Martina Barchitta, Andrea Maugeri, Elisabetta Campisi, Giuliana Favara, Claudia Ojeda Granados, Claudia La Mastra, Maria Clara La Rosa, Fabiola Galvani, Elisa Pappalardo, Carla Ettore, Giuseppe Ettore, Antonella Agodi

“…Understanding these sex-based differences is essential for tailored care and informed public health policies.MethodsThe present study aimed to delineate sex disparities in delivery and neonatal characteristics within the “MAMI MED” cohort, an ongoing prospective study involving mother–child pairs from Catania, Italy. The analysis included 1,090 mother–child pairs.ResultsThe comparison of birth weight and birth length distribution showed some differences between sexes, confirmed by higher birth weight (β = 0.121; 95% CI = 0.071–0.172) and greater birth length (β = 0.659; 95% CI = 0.360–0.958) in males compared to females. …”
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Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature by Maxence Gouleau

“…By investigating scientist/object relationships alongside mother/daughter relationships, Sight formulates the beginning of an ethics of looking at and of writing about bodies, which lies in a practice of parenthood that acknowledges both curiosity for and discomfort with bodies. …”
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“More than the travels around the world, on your nest full of peace, you find each time the playful love:” Lollobrigida’s motherhood in admirers’ letters by Federico Vitella

“…The Biblioteca Chiarini (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) still preserves a small sample of the bursting flow of letters of congratulations that accompanied the publication of this or that update article on Milko Junior’s gestation, including simple expressions of good wishes, reflections on parenthood, tributes materials (blankets and dresses) and even a lullaby specially composed to help the child sleep and guarantee the right rest for the exceptional mother. The present article intends to study this extraordinary corpus of letters, problematizing the historiographical evidence acquired from studies on letters to the powerful.…”
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“What a Handsome Family We Are!”: Feral Children and Kin-Making in Abbie Farwell Brown’s The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900) by Julia Helena Wilde

“…The book includes two short stories about feral children who grow up to become saints (“Saint Keneth of the Gulls” and “The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe”). The unusually close cross-species bonds presented by Brown in her stories can be considered as, what Donna Haraway, in Staying with the Trouble (2016), would call, “kin-making.” …”
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Literatura, Estado y Nación en el siglo XIX argentino : el poder instituyente del discurso y la configuración de los mitos fundacionales de la identidad by Marisa Moyano

“…Along the 19th century, the processes of territorialización -to constitute the territory- and discursive appropriation of the space in Argentina were formed from writing processes and from discursive interactions that instituted performativamente a project of country, a project of State and a project of Nation, defining the body of the mother land and its limits, its territory and its identity, which had to form a part of this body and what not, and its policies of incorporations and exclusions under the idea of what had to be «the Nation». …”
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Filiation et novum temporel : le cas d’Interstellar et d’Arrival by Simon Bréan

“…Our objective here will be to determine in what way the dynamics of filiation – privileged links between a father and his daughter for Interstellar, between a mother and her daughter for Arrival – becomes an essential instrument for the comprehension of temporal displacements, by the characters themselves, but also and above all for the reception and the intelligibility of the paradoxical causality implemented, by the spectators. …”
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‘As Though It Were A Sacred Relic’: The Troubled Holocaust Poetry of Julian Tuwim by Myer Siemiatycki

“…Described as ‘a virtuoso of language’ in his beloved Polish mother tongue, Tuwim’s literary range was remarkable and varied. …”
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Parental Perspectives on Private Tutoring in Qatar: Results from the 2019 Qatar Education Study by Hessa Al-Thani, Abdellatif Sellami, Brian Washington Mandikiana

“…Using binary probit regression analysis, results derived from this study disclosed five predictors of private tutoring usage among parents. These include the mother’s education level, the student’s school grade, the cost of education-related activities, the type of school a child attends, and the child’s absenteeism from school. …”
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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…Especially in Beloved, the most famous of her novels, in wich, throughout the ghost figure came back to hunting her mother, appears one of the hardest reality of human history : slavery experience. …”
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Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis Causing Chronic Stridor and Delayed Speech in an 18-Month-Old Boy by Adel Alharbi, Derek Drummond, Alfredo Pinto, Valerie Kirk

“…Human papilloma virus types 6 and 11 are important in the etiology of papillomas and are most probably transmitted from mother to child during birth. Although spontaneous remission is frequent, pulmonary spread and/or malignant transformation resulting in death has been reported. …”
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The Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Mortality in Northern Norway during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

“…The risk of an infant death occurring among the children of daughters from such ‘high risk’ families was at least 30 per cent higher than that amongst infants born to the daughters of mothers who had experienced zero infant deaths.…”
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Une vision sexuée de l’Histoire contemporaine espagnole à travers deux œuvres d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, El arte de volar et El ala rota by Vanessa Auroy

“…Las existencias de Petra y Antonio ponen de realce los actos, las palabras y los silencios de millones de españolas y españoles que vivieron y sufrieron la contienda y sus consecuencias.This paper will study how, through the biographical comic books dedicated to his mother and his father, Antonio Altarriba gives us a gender-specific view of life during the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. …”
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Factor Structure of the Scale of Sensed Parental Competencies: Version for parents (ECPP-p) by Yannet Valencia-Chacón

“…The original structure evaluated of five correlated dimensions: school involvement, personal dedication, shared leisure, counseling and guidance and assumption of the role of father or mother was confirmed. Results: An adequate fit was obtained to the model of five factors, X2 = 406.47, CFI = .96, TLI =0.95, RMSEA =0.068. …”
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Más allá del mar, un inmenso jardín. El trato a la figura de Rafael del Riego en la prensa de México, Colombia y Buenos Aires tras su muerte (1823-1830) by Alberto Cañas de Pablos

“…The case of American territories that were fighting for sparing from their mother country presents several special features, because they were at the same time next and far from what was happening in Spain, in different ways. …”
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Multiple pregnancy. Case report. by Práxedes Regla Rojas Quintana

“…Tubaric permeability with hydrotubation was first accomplished, then ovulation and spermatogenesis with clomiphene citrate and then low-technology fertilization was performed, resulting in a quadruple pregnancy, which satisfactorily arrived to full term at 34 weeks of gestation. Due to the mother’s medical history, the risks involved in this type of pregnancy and its happy outcome, we decided to publish the case. …”
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Combined Spinal-Epidural Analgesia for Laboring Parturient with Arnold-Chiari Type I Malformation: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Clark K. Choi, Kalpana Tyagaraj

“…The increase in intracranial pressure during uterine contractions, coughing, valsalva maneuvers, and expulsion of the fetus can be detrimental to the mother during the process of labor and delivery. No concrete evidence has implicated high cerebral spinal fluid pressure on maternal and fetal complications. …”
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Transfer of affective connotations in the basic lexicon of Spanish learners of L2 English by Ana Blanco Canales, Elisa Pérez-García

“…It is mainly concluded that the mother tongue exerts a significant influence on this perceptual process and that the emotional connotations of the L2 are incorporated into the mental lexicon through translations from the L1 as a result of an emotional transfer.…”
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