ORIGINS research aims to improve maternal and infant health by identifying effective interventions, supporting healthy pregnancy behaviors, and understanding factors that affect fertility and conception.
Sub-projects within this research domain explore a range of important areas: supporting breastfeeding success by teaching mothers how to hand express colostrum before birth; promoting healthy maternal nutrition and activity to influence fetal and infant body composition and tackle the intergenerational cycle of obesity; and investigating subfertility in couples to understand whether differences in pregnancy and child health outcomes are linked to treatments, lifestyle, or underlying fertility issues.
Active
This research aims to examine subfertility in a population pregnancy cohort, analysing the underlying differences between sub fertile couples who conceive naturally, sub fertile couples who conceive using ART or non-IVF, and fertile couples.
Completed
The Antenatal Colostrum Expression (ACE) Study aims to determine whether hand expressing of colostrum in the last few weeks of pregnancy can help new mothers to breastfeed.
Pregnancy Lifestyle Activity and Nutrition (PLAN)