FN-508
INFANT NUTRITION AND CHILD HEALTH
Learning Objectives:
This course will enable the students to:
● Understanding about feeding practices.
● Compare different milk from different sources.
● Gain knowledge about weaning foods.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the course, the students will be able to:
● Demonstrate the importance of infant nutrition.
● Associate nutritional value of milk from different sources.
● Develop formulations of various weaning foods.
SDGs addressed in the course:
SDG #4 (Quality Education)
3(2-1)
Teaching Mode: This course will be taught in hybrid learning mode offering a substantial portion
of contents and course activities online through learning management system.
Theory:
Normal growth and development during infancy: Assessment of growth and development;
Nutritional management of the baby; Need for weaning: Types of supplementary foods; Feeding
practices: Feeding problems; Low birth weight infants: Feeding to LBW; Basic nutrient
requirement; Composition of cow and human milk; Composition of goat and sheep milk; Infant
infections: Infant inflectional diseases, respiratory tract infections, tuberculosis; Nutritional
disease in infants.
Practical:
Basic nutrition requirement for babies; Feeding of baby up to six month; Preparation of formula
milk for babies of different weight and age; Introduction to weaning food; Introduction to
supplementary feeding; Data collection for nutritive value of commercial weaning foods;
Preparation of supplementary foods for infants; Preparation of semi-solid foods for infants;
Preparation of solid foods for infants; Making of performa to visit the hospitals to collect the data
of diseased infant; Making of Apgar score; Oral dehydration therapy for diarrhea infants.
Text book:
1- Black, R.E., R. Laxminarayn, M. Temmerman and N. Walker. 2016. Reproductive
maternal new born and child health. World bank. 397.
Suggested Readings:
1. Behan, E. 2008. The baby food bible: A complete guide to feeding your child from infancy
on, 1st Ed. Ballantine Books, the Random House Publishing Group, New York, NY, USA.
2. Canada, S.E. 2000. Child of Mine: Feeding with love and good sense. Revised and Updated
Edition. Bull Publishing Company, Toranto, Canada.
3. Dykes, F. and V.H. Moran. 2009. Infant and young child feeding: Challenges to
implementing a global strategy. Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. Chichester,
West Sussex, UK.
Srilakshmi, B., 2014. Dietetics. 7th Ed., New Age International Publishers, New Delhi, India.