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This prospective study describes maternal responsive feeding and factors associated with maternal responsive feeding, with emphasis on infant growth and maternal depressive symptoms, during the first 3 months postpartum in Taiwan. From 2015 to 2017, 438 pregnant women were recruited and followed at 1 and 3 months postpartum. Maternal responsive feeding at 3 months was measured on a 10-item 5-point Likert-type scale. Maternal depressive symptoms were measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale with a cutoff score of 10. Infant growth was categorized into four groups based on weight-for-length Z scores from birth to 3 months: no change, increase but in the normal range, increase to overweight, and decrease to underweight. Multiple regression revealed that postpartum depressive symptoms, primipara, and decreased infant weight-for-length Z score were negatively associated with maternal responsive feeding, while exclusive breastfeeding and maternal age younger than 29 years were positively associated with maternal responsive feeding. Heath professionals should educate mothers on responsive feeding, with emphases on first-time and non-exclusive breastfeeding mothers, as well as those with depressive symptoms, advanced maternal age, and infants who are becoming underweight.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu12061766","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,15]],"date-time":"2020-06-15T03:17:32Z","timestamp":1592191052000},"page":"1766","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Responsive Feeding, Infant Growth, and Postpartum Depressive Symptoms during 3 Months Postpartum"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0235-8159","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tzu-Ling","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yi-Ying","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan 33303, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6186-0694","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chen-Li","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei 10629, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fu-Shiang","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei 22056, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4210-2975","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Li-Yin","family":"Chien","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Community Health Care, School of Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1881","DOI":"10.1002\/oby.21168","article-title":"Prospective associations of eating behaviors with weight gain in infants","volume":"23","author":"Shepard","year":"2015","journal-title":"Obesity"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"627","DOI":"10.1037\/0012-1649.42.4.627","article-title":"Responsive parenting: Establishing early foundations for social, communication, and independent problem-solving skills","volume":"42","author":"Landry","year":"2006","journal-title":"Dev. 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