‘It Depends What You Mean by Feeding “on Demand”’: Mothers’ Accounts of Babies’ Agency in Infant-Feeding Relationships

Studies in Childhood and Youth

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-34

  Keenan, Julia ^a   Stapleton, Helen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Inadequate Food Intake; Infant Feeding; Infantile Colic; Millennium Cohort Study; Public Health Nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145065317     PISSN: 27316467     EISSN: 27316475     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230244979_2     Document Type: Chapter

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