Children Watch Television Instead Of Games If Obese Mothers

Children Watch Television Instead Of Games If Obese Mothers.
Many babies dish out almost three hours in effrontery of the TV each day, a new learning finds, especially if their mothers are obese and TV addicts themselves, or if the babies are fussy or active. "Mothers are using goggle-box as a way to soothe these infants who might be a little bit more difficult to deal with," said ranking study author Amanda Thompson, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill. Other studies have shown that TV watching at such an antique age can be harmful adding that TV can put on hold important developmental milestones.

The report was published online Jan 7, 2013 and in the February lithograph issue of the journal Pediatrics. For the study, Thompson's yoke looked at more than 200 pairs of low-income black mothers and babies who took part in a library on obesity risk in infants, for which families were observed in their homes. Researchers found infants as young as 3 months were parked in look of the TV for almost three hours a day.

And 40 percent of infants were exposed to TV at least three hours a date by the time they were 1 year old. Mothers who were obese, who watched a lot of TV and whose foetus was fussy were most likely to put their infants in front of the TV, Thompson's party found. TV viewing continued through mealtime for many infants, the researchers found.

Mothers with more upbringing were less likely to keep the TV on during meals. Obese mothers are more likely to be inactive or bear from depression. "They are more likely to use the television themselves, so their infants are exposed to more television as well". Thompson is currently doing a chew over to see if play and other alternatives can help these moms get their babies away from the television.