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Breast-feeding patterns in a rural village in Giza, Egypt.

Author(s) -

Iman A. Hakim,

I A el-Ashmawy

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.82.5.731

Subject(s) - colostrum , breast feeding , medicine , longitudinal study , demography , rural area , environmental health , pediatrics , immunology , pathology , sociology , antibody

In a longitudinal study of infant feeding in rural Giza, Egypt, we found that 68.8% of the recruited mothers initiated early suckling of colostrum, but only 51.2% of the infants were exclusively breast-fed in the first week. Solid foods were introduced much earlier than at the recommended age of 4 to 6 months. Sixty percent of the mothers who participated in the study considered breast-feeding plus regular or irregular complementary feeding to be exclusive breast-feeding.

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