The Relationship between Baby-Led Weaning and Infant Nutritional Status: Literature Review

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10.2991/978-2-494069-49-7_113How to use a DOI?

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Baby-Led Weaning; Complementary Feeding; BMI; Nutritional Status

Abstract

Early childhood development reaches its pinnacle in the first two years, both in terms of physical growth and intelligence. Meanwhile, a good nutritional status supports growth and plays a role in determining the success or failure of human resources improvement efforts. Complementary food as a method of infant feeding is one of the factors that affect the nutritional status. Parents have long used the traditional method to initiate complementary feeding, but a new method known as baby-led weaning (BLW) has recently gained widespread popularity. However, the application of this approach as the first complementary feeding method to infants still raises a lot of debate particularly on the nutritional adequacy. Therefore, this study aims to examine the relationship between baby-led weaning and the nutritional status of infants. Several studies previously conducted found that there is no significant difference between BLW and the traditional method with the nutritional status of infants. However, infants that are fed using the BLW method are usually underweight, hence, it is recommended to be avoided when parents are able to provide food choices carefully. It is expected to broaden understanding of baby-led weaning and its relationship to nutritional status. To find previously published studies relevant to the current study question, a search was conducted on Google Scholar, PubMed, ProQuest, and EBSCO databases using the keywords “baby-led weaning”, “complementary feeding”, “nutritional status”, "BMI", and "nutritional status". Screening of titles and abstracts was carried out on 84 studies, then, 32 studies irrelevant to this topic were excluded. Furthermore, a duplication screening was performed on 5 studies and screening methodology, discussion, as well as overall text in 6 studies. Therefore, among the 84 studies initially reviewed, only 16 met the criteria for final assessment.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ichtiwa Aruni Putri
AU  - Tubagus Ferdi Fadilah
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/29
TI  - The Relationship between Baby-Led Weaning and Infant Nutritional Status: Literature Review
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science 2021 (BIS-HSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 681
EP  - 685
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-49-7_113
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-49-7_113
ID  - Putri2022
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