Infant feeding practices in Bombay slums

A study was conducted in two slum areas in a Bombay suburb covering a total population of 4879. One hundred and fifty-three mothers having children below two years were interviewed. Ninety six per cent infants below the age of 4 months received breast milk, though exclusive breastfeeding was practis...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Indian pediatrics 1994-09, Vol.31 (9), p.1083-1087
Hauptverfasser:	BAVDEKAR, S. B, BAVDEKAR, M. S, KASLA, R. R, RAGHUMANDANA, K. J, JOSHI, S. Y, HATHI, G. S
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Bottle Feeding Breast Feeding Female Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans India Infant Medical sciences Miscellaneous Population Poverty Prevention and actions Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Suburban Population Tropical medicine Weaning
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Zusammenfassung:	A study was conducted in two slum areas in a Bombay suburb covering a total population of 4879. One hundred and fifty-three mothers having children below two years were interviewed. Ninety six per cent infants below the age of 4 months received breast milk, though exclusive breastfeeding was practised only in 37% infants. Timely complementary feeding rate was only 0.48. Twenty three per cent of mothers used bottle for administration of supplementary food or water. Only 15.7% of mothers used commercial milk formula and 8.5% used commercial weaning food.
ISSN:	0019-6061 0974-7559