Babies Gain More Weight in Day Care
It's already a tough decision for any parent, but opting for child care may have just become an even weightier issue. Researchers at the University of Illinois and the Harvard School of Public Health report that toddlers who spend time in day care tend to gain more weight than those who are cared for by their parents at home.
After scouring a national database of more than 8,000 infants who were nine months old between 2001 and 2002, researchers Juhee Kim and Karen Peterson found that about 55% of infants were regularly cared for by people other than their parents — in other words, relatives or professionals at a child-care facility. Half of those children were in full-time day care, 40% of them beginning at younger than three months of age.
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