A study to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices of exclusive breast feeding among primi mothers of healthy term neonates in a tertiary care hospital and predictors of failure of establishment of exclusive breast feeding in first six months

Breast Feeding Knowledge Attitude and Practices amongst Mothers of Rural and Tribal Region

“…Practice of pre-lacteals is very common in the community, similarly pre-lacteals were also given by 7.8% mothers in our study. This finding is against the study by Naseem et al, [7] where this rate was upto 27 % thus indicating that mothers of this region are aware about the benefits of initial milk.…”

“…Breastfeeding is also advantageous to mother, as it reduces postnatal bleeding duration and the risk for malignancies. [7] The knowledge, attitude and practice of exclusive breastfeeding is greatly influenced by cultural, demographic, social, biophysical and psychosocial factors. In India, the rates of early initiation, exclusive breastfeeding are far from desirable.…”

Knowledge Regarding Breastfeeding and Support for Breastfeeding among Postnatal Mothers in Tamilnadu

“…In our study, we found that, 86% of mothers received some form of antenatal counseling regarding breastfeeding. This observation is higher than various studies done at various parts of our country, (48%) Ekambram M et al (6) , (58%) Altaf Naseem et al (9) . That may be a reason, why nursing mothers in this study group are more aware about certain aspects of breast feeding than other study groups.…”

“…In the present study only 18% of mothers were unaware of EBF because they tend to give water along with breast milk, which is lower than the study done at JIPMER by Ekambram M et al (84%) (6) . Studies done by Altaf Naseem et al (9) found that 72.8% of mothers knew that, breastfeeding can prevent infection like ARI, ADD to their children. In our study, we found that 80% of the mothers were aware of this.…”

A qualitative study on perceptions of first time mothers about breastfeeding

“…Top feeds were started by 48.6% mothers before completion of 6 months of the child. 15 The principal reasons were aggressive promotion of baby foods by commercial companies and lack of appropriate support structures at the places of work and community, whereas, in this study first time mothers acquired the erroneous idea about breastfeeding from the aya, neighbors, quack and television. They have also a misconception about disfigurement of the female body coupled with fathers' over-eagerness to buy expensive artificial milk as a sign of high economic status.…”