Innovations in Neonatal and Early Childhood Nutrition
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2026 | Viewed by 3068
Editors
Interests: nutrition; diet quality; diet patterns
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is clear that adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days of life provides the foundation for lifelong health. It represents a critical time and window of opportunity to build a child’s future. This Special Issue focuses on the period after birth through early childhood. One of the areas in neonatal nutrition that requires additional data is supplementation, particularly in preterm infants. There is substantial evidence for the benefits of breastfeeding, but understanding breastfeeding practices and access to breastfeeding are needed to support breastfeeding persons. How children are fed may be as important as what they are fed; therefore, the relationships between feeding practices and outcomes related to eating behavior and dietary intake are of interest. Other topics of interest include the following: complementary foods, diet patterns, parental nutrition perceptions, early life nutrition in specific disease states, and external factors influencing diet patterns among young children (e.g., nutrition children (e.g., nutrition security). Nutrition researchers, especially dietitians, pediatricians, neonatologists, and psychologists, are invited to submit original research articles, reviews, and commentaries that provide insight into novel and understudied aspects of nutrition from infancy through early childhood.
Dr. Alyssa Tindall
Guest Editor
Dr. Rosara Bass
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- neonatal nutrition
- neonatal growth
- childhood nutrition
- child dietary patterns
- child diet quality
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