50pc mothers start breastfeeding within half an hour of delivery
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Most of the people living in the rural areas of the country practice exclusive breastfeeding and around 50 per cent of mothers start breastfeeding within half an hour of delivery, reports UNB.
"In case of colostrums feeding it was appreciable to find that almost 95 per cent women practised it," said a recent study.
A group of students of Chittagong Medical College under the department of Community Medicine has recently conducted the study over eight topics at some selected areas of Chittagong under the Residential Field Side Training (RFST) programme.
The topics include exclusive breastfeeding, attitude towards the habit of smoking among the male population, awareness on tuberculosis, survey on common skin diseases, health seeking behaviour of women of reproductive age at Rohingya Camp and preference of home or hospital delivery among the mothers of rural community.
According to statement of the respondents, majority (78.95 per cent) of the mother provided extra food due to insufficient breast milk and 35.29 per cent gave extra food due to excessive crying of the baby, it said.
"Most (55.90 per cent) of the respondents took feeding advice from senior female family members."
The study said the majority (33.33 per cent) respondent were illiterate and housewives belonging to the lower middle socio economic class while majority (63.69 per cent) had a family size of 4-6 members, with two children in the family.
"In case of colostrums feeding it was appreciable to find that almost 95 per cent women practised it," said a recent study.
A group of students of Chittagong Medical College under the department of Community Medicine has recently conducted the study over eight topics at some selected areas of Chittagong under the Residential Field Side Training (RFST) programme.
The topics include exclusive breastfeeding, attitude towards the habit of smoking among the male population, awareness on tuberculosis, survey on common skin diseases, health seeking behaviour of women of reproductive age at Rohingya Camp and preference of home or hospital delivery among the mothers of rural community.
According to statement of the respondents, majority (78.95 per cent) of the mother provided extra food due to insufficient breast milk and 35.29 per cent gave extra food due to excessive crying of the baby, it said.
"Most (55.90 per cent) of the respondents took feeding advice from senior female family members."
The study said the majority (33.33 per cent) respondent were illiterate and housewives belonging to the lower middle socio economic class while majority (63.69 per cent) had a family size of 4-6 members, with two children in the family.