Infant and young child feeding guidelines: awareness amongst mothers and practices followed

Authors

  • Shraddha Dubewar Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Shankar Rao Chavan Government Medical College, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
  • Sarfaraz Ahmed Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Shankar Rao Chavan Government Medical College, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
  • Saleem H. Tambe Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Shankar Rao Chavan Government Medical College, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
  • Arvind Chavan Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Shankar Rao Chavan Government Medical College, Nanded, Maharashtra, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20180568

Keywords:

Breast feeding, Complementary foods, Mother, Practices

Abstract

Background: Globally if the exclusive breast feeding is adopted there is up to 15% reduction in the mortality of under five children. At the same time proper “complementary feeding practices” leads to up to 10% more decrease in the mortality rates. The objective of this study was to study the infant and young child feeding practices among mothers

Methods: This was an observational study, conducted at Aditya Hospital, Hyderabad in the period duration of 2012-2013. All children upto 24 months of life and their mothers were included in the study.

Results: Most common reasons given by the mothers were pain in the stitches and discomfort and anesthesia effect due to lower segment caesarean section (LSCS) (70%). it was found that there was no significant correlation between education status of mother and time of initiation of breast feeding (P=0.6). it was found that there was no statistical significance between giving of pre-lacteals according to educational status of mothers. Almost 60% (n=64) of the mothers were appropriate in starting complementary foods at the age of 6 months.

Conclusions: Women need to be educated separately with knowledge regarding of appropriate feeding practices so that both mothers and babies benefit from it; leading further to a healthy nation.

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2018-02-22

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