WHAT IS IGROW?
In the iGrow research studies, we hope to learn how child characteristics like temperament and emotion regulation, biological factors like hormones, and social factors like parenting and feeding choices influence your child’s healthy growth and development. We recognize that covid changed the landscape of parenthood. We want to capture Covid experiences (both stressors and supports), how parents’ psychological, social, and economic outcomes changed in response to Covid experiences, and how parents’ outcomes were related to their children’s development. We are very excited to hear from mothers and their co-parents for the iGrow CARES study. We are also interested in postpartum maternal health. The maternal heart health study is an ancillary study of iGrow, the primary goal being to investigate the relationship between the physical environment and cardiometabolic risk factors during pregnancy and the impact on cardiovascular health in the postpartum period.
Our long-term goal is to use all of this information to help other families in this and other communities.
