A Study of Feeding Practices in the babies of urban educated mothers attending well baby clinic of a tertiary care maternity hospital.
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Ideal food for the young infant is human milk which has the specific characteristics that matches the growing infant’s nutritional requirement. It is the nature’s first food for babies. It provides all the energy and nutrients that the infant needs in early months. Methods: Total of 100 healthy mothers and their healthy newborns in between the age of 15-30 days were taken in study group during September 2015 to July 2016 of tertiary care maternity hospital of Rajasthan. All the mothers were interviewed as per standardized proforma regarding the feeding practices of their newborn. The information thus obtained were compiled, tabulated and analyzed statistically to draw out observations. Results: Kuppuswamy’s socioeconomic scale showed that 10% mothers belonged to class-1(upper), 25% belonged to class-2 (upper middle) and rest of 65% mothers belonged to class-3 (lower middle). In the present study it was found that 68% mothers initiated breastfeeding within one hour and 88% mothers were aware regarding usefulness of colostrum. Study revealed that 35% mothers were giving feed to their babies by fixed schedule and 65% babies received on demand. On demand feed was more common in working mothers, upper middle class and postgraduate mothers (84%). Conclusion: Knowledge regarding exclusive breast feeding was more in nuclear, upper middle class and higher educated working mothers but for 100% achievement of initiation of breastfeeding practices the study recommends that there is necessity to promote knowledge of the mothers about breast feeding
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NIRANJAN N, Vishnu Kumar Pansari, Ram NarainSehra, Suniti Verma
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