In this section, Lifelines participants (or their parents) were asked about their own birth and early development. In addition, adult female participants were asked about their reproductive life, including menstruation, childbirth and menopause.
Information on postnatal diet can be found here.
A large portion of the questions in this section were asked in the context of two additional assessments, ROAQ and NEXT.
Note that the object and the subject of the questions (i.e. the adult participant as a parent, the adult participant describing their own childhood, the underage participant being described by their parent) vary across and within the different subsections.
Variables are organized in the following subsections: