Assessment of Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices of Caregiver’s in Jashore City, Bangladesh
2020
Since infant and young child feeding practices play an important role in
ameliorating childhood nutrition, an exploratory and descriptive study has thus
been conducted employing a previously developed questionnaire at Ad-din shisu
Hospital, Jashore, Bangladesh to obtain better insights about the breastfeeding
and complementary feeding practices among infant and young child feeding
caregivers. Out of 260 babies, 54% were female and 46% were male. Nearly all
caregivers were found having the idea that breast milk is the best food for
newborn babies. Around 81.9% of caregivers think that breast milk contains all
the nutrients the baby needs to flourish, but in case of protection from
disease, only 18.1% of caregivers think that it protects the baby from certain
diseases. Around 46.9% mothers practiced early initiation of breastfeeding and
they offered breast milk to their newborn right away (within one hour) after
delivery, 53.5% lactating mothers had proper knowledge about breastfeeding
methods, 39.6% mothers never practiced burping after breastfeeding, 66.4%
mothers had normal delivery, 33.6% mothers had caesarian section, 99% mothers
offered colostrums to their babies and only 1% of them didn’t give the
colostrums. Besides, 88.8% continued breastfeeding up to 24 months or more
along with 83.8% caregivers starting complementary feeding from six months,
55.4% caregivers said baby’s immune system is less developed, so they get
attacked by infection easily and 44.6% caregivers said “their tummies are vulnerable to infection”, and 48.8% of the
caregivers followed the type of hygiene required. Our findings revealed
information on the knowledge, attitude, and practices of the caregiver’s
towards breastfeeding and complementary feeding.
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