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Title: | The timing of breastfeeding initiation and its correlates in a cohort of rural Egyptian infants |
Authors: | Hossain, M. Moshaddeque Reves, Randall R. Radwan, Maged M. |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Journal of Tropical Pediatrics |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 6 |
Pages: | 354-359 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Egypt |
Subject: | breastfeeding |
External link: | http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/41/6/354 |
Abstract: | Most healthy newborns are ready to begin consuming breastmilk within 1 hour after birth. Yet in some developing country rural areas many mothers defer breastfeeding initiation till the second post-partum day or later. In order to obtain data on the timing of breastfeeding initiation in Egypt, the authors recruited apparently healthy, single neonates and their apparently healthy mothers within four days of childbirth, and followed them during 1987 through 1989. The study was conducted in four villages in rural Bilbeis, Sharqiya Governorate, with the aim to: 1) document the pattern of the timing of breastfeeding initiation; 2) identify the predictors of this timing; 3) examine the associations between this timing, and prelacteal feeding and wet nursing of the neonate; and 4) to assess the impact of this timing on the prevalence of overall breastfeeding and of exclusive breastfeeding in different age periods during infancy. Later initiation of breastfeeding was associated with indiscriminate prelacteal feeding, earlier termination of breastfeeding, and unwelcome supplementation practices. Ref., sum. |