Infant Weight and Gut Microbiota Data from Maternal Yoghurt Intervention Study

226 infants were tracked across three groups to examine the effects of maternal yoghurt supplementation on infant weight and gut microbiota. The dataset includes infant weight measurements at 42 days and 3 months, and gut microbiota diversity indices and genus-level abundances from 0 to 6 months. Longlong Jia published this data on figshare in 2026 under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Correlating infant weight gain with maternal pre-pregnancy BMI based on the three defined study groups (YC, NC, CC).
• Analyzing temporal changes in gut microbiota diversity based on the Shannon index measurements from 0-6 months.
• Modeling the relationship between infant weight and specific bacterial genera like Veillonella, Fusicatenibacter, and Akkermansia based on the described positive correlation.
• Comparing enterotype compositions between intervention and control groups during the first six months of life.

Strengths

• Includes data from 226 infants across three distinct maternal groups, providing a basis for comparison.
• Contains longitudinal measurements of infant weight and gut microbiota from birth to at least 6 months.
• Specific microbial genera (e.g., Akkermansia, Lactobacillus, Blautia) are named, allowing for targeted analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data file is a 13.6 KB DOCX, suggesting the underlying dataset is very small in scale.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Longlong Jia.

Collection Method

Clinical study with an intervention group provided yoghurt and two control groups.

Time Range

Data collection spans from early pregnancy to at least 3 months postpartum for infant weight, and 0-6 months for microbiota.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:37:05; freshness should be verified.