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... In a baby it reduces the incidence and severity of infectious diseases like diarrhoea, inflammatory bowel disease, respiratory tract infection, otitis media, urinary tract infection, eczema long term benefits in prevention of obesity, diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2, cardiovascular diseases, asthma and allergy to baby. 5 weight in post-partum period and raise the emotional bond between mother and child. 6 Every year 5.6 million of infants die because of inadequate nutrition and one of the major reasons is lack of knowledge and awareness regarding EIBF and EBF. 7 Rate of EIBF was found to be 60% at this institute. ...
Background: The importance of early initiation of breast feeding (EIBF) and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is widely recognized, but the optimum rates have not been attained due to several factors. One of the important factors is the lack of adequate knowledge of women regarding breastfeeding.Methods: This comparative intervention study was conducted in the obstetric OPD and postnatal wards of tertiary care hospital of central Gujarat. This study included antenatal women between gestational age of 28 to 38 weeks who are visiting obstetric OPD at our institute and wanted to deliver at the same as cases (356 participants) and postpartum women who were delivered at this institute who have not taken antenatal care and counselling at this institute as control.Results: This study concluded that prenatal counselling regarding breast feeding had significant impact on the improvement of knowledge of women regarding EIBF and Exclusive breast feeding. Rate of EIBF and EBF was 91.85% and 86.52% in case group which was significantly higher compared to the control group.Conclusions: Prenatal structured counselling helps to raise the rate of EIBF and EBF.
... In the UK, breastfeeding infants known as important for health, but two-thirds of mothers choose to immediately stop breastfeeding because they worried about intake from breast milk is not enough for infant nutrition. This prospective study also revealed correlation to the baby food selection is influenced by socio-cultural factors and attitudes associated with stunting in children [12]. Study that was conducted in East Lombok society shows that the habit of giving the prelacteal in the beginning of infant's life is closely related to the incidence of stunting. ...
Almost three of ten children in Indonesia suffered stunting. Cultural food taboos to mothers and children, and socioeconomic family might affect eating patterns in Muna ethnic. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between family’s socio-economic factors and cultural factors with the incidence of stunting. this cross-sectional study applied the qualitative and quantitative methods involved 110 randomly selected children aged 6-24 months. Stunting was categorized by comparing the Body length (cm) with the children age (months). Data of socio-economic and cultural factors were taken using structured questionnaire and in-depth interview. The occurence of stunting was 32.7%. Education level, dietary restriction during pregnancy, and prelacteal intake significantly correlated with the occurence of stunting (p <0.05), while the per-capita expenditure, food tabo and the history of exclusive breastfeeding were not significantly correlated with the occurance of stunting (p> 0.05). Multivariate analysis showed prelacteal intake as the most influential factor that affecting the incidence of stunting.The prevalence of stunting in the Batalaiworu district is higher than the national prevalence of stunting. Cultural factors like prelacteal feeding is the most influential factor that affecting the occurrence of stunting.
To investigate whether offering volunteer support from counsellors in breast feeding would result in more women breast feeding.
Randomised controlled trial.
32 general practices in London and south Essex.
720 women considering breast feeding.
Primary outcome was prevalence of any breast feeding at six weeks. Secondary outcomes were the proportion of women giving any breast feeds, or bottle feeds at four months, duration of any breast feeding, time to introduction of bottle feeds, and satisfaction with breast feeding.
Offering support in breast feeding did not significantly increase the prevalence of any breast feeding to six weeks (65% (218/336) in the intervention group and 63% (213/336) in the control group; relative risk 1.02, 95% confidence interval 0.84 to 1.24). Survival analysis up to four months confirmed that neither duration of breast feeding nor time to introduction of formula feeds differed significantly between control and intervention groups. Not all women in the intervention group contacted counsellors postnatally, but 73% (123/179) of those who did rated them as very helpful. More women in the intervention group than in the control group said that their most helpful advice came from counsellors rather than from other sources.
Women valued the support of a counsellor in breast feeding, but the intervention did not significantly increase breastfeeding rates, perhaps because some women did not ask for help.
