title: The mother-infant feeding tool.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the development and evaluation of an observation system to assess the process of mother-infant feeding interaction relevant to infant neuro-behavioral regulation: the Mother-Infant Feeding Tool.
  
  
  METHODS
  Secondary analysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Special care nursery just before discharge and in the home at 1 and 4 months postterm age.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-three mother-infant dyads.
  
  
  METHODS
  Videotaped feeding interactions were examined to assess regulatory processes of mother-infant interaction. Data were collected at three times over the infant's first 4 postterm months: before the infant's discharge from the special care nursery and at 1 and 4 months postterm age in the home.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Across all three data points mothers rarely talked to their infants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Further testing is needed, but the Mother-Infant Feeding Tool shows promise in assessing very early mother-infant feeding interactions.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 980567, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. lfbrown2@vcu.edu
authors.forename: Lisa F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thoyre
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pridham
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schubert
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D019370:Observation / Q000379:methods*; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014743:Videotape Recording