Obesity
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALUse of baby bottle nipple
Participants will be assigned to either a novel nipple or a conventional nipple to use when feeding their infants with the bottle
Sponsors
University of California, Davis
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 3 Months
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Intake | per feed |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Growth | 4 months |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed