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  • Pediatrics
  • Public Health
  • Environmental Health

Background:

  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy and postpartum is a significant public health concern.
  • The impact of maternal smoking on infant growth, particularly through breastfeeding, requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if infants breastfed by smokers are at risk for accelerated weight and length gain.
  • To assess if rapid infant growth is attributable to the ingestion of smokers' breast milk.
  • To explore the implications of these findings for breastfeeding practices among smokers.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study and Medical Birth Registry of Norway (n=54,522).
  • Examined infant growth (weight, length, weight-for-length z-score) in relation to maternal smoking levels (0, 1-10, >10 cigarettes/day) and feeding method (breastfed, formula fed, mixed fed).
  • Employed generalized linear models with interaction terms to evaluate the effect of maternal smoking on growth via breast milk.

Main Results:

  • Breastfed infants of light and heavy smokers showed increased weight-for-length z-score (WFLZ) gains (0.05 and 0.13, respectively).
  • Mixed-fed infants of heavy smokers also exhibited increased WFLZ gain (0.10).
  • Maternal smoking did not predict rapid growth in exclusively formula-fed infants. Interaction models indicated that infants breastfed by heavy smokers gained weight (100g) and length (2.8mm) attributable to ingesting smoker's breast milk.

Conclusions:

  • Infants breastfed by smokers experience accelerated growth, with a portion of this growth linked to the ingestion of smokers' breast milk.
  • For infants breastfed by light smokers, these growth gains fall within normal patterns for healthy, breastfed infants.