A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding Weaning among Mothers of Infants in a Selected Area of Rewa City

Children constitute the foundation of a nation. Healthy children evolve to become healthy adult and effectively participate in the national development. While each newborn baby’s perceived as an addition to a family, it also brings with it new responsibilities. The World Health Organization (WHO) theme of 2003 is – “Shape the future of life, healthy environment to children.”[1] The term weaning describes the time period in which a progressive reduction of breastfeeding or the feeding of infant formula takes place while the infant is gradually introduced to solid foods. It is a crucial time in an infant’s life as not only does it involve with a great deal of rapid change for the child but it is also associated with the development of food preferences, eating behaviors, and body weight in childhood and also in adolescence and adulthood. Therefore, how a child is weaned may have an influence later, on the individual’s entire life. Babies are traditionally first introduced to solid foods using spoon feeding, in most countries.[2]