A Study on Breast Feeding Practice of Mothers of Bangladesh: Perspective Dhaka City

Salim Raza; Sabir Hossain; M. Masihul Alam; Abul Kashem Tang; A. T. M. Mijanur Rahman; Asad Ud-Daula

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A Study on Breast Feeding Practice of Mothers of Bangladesh: Perspective Dhaka City

Salim Raza, Sabir Hossain, M. Masihul Alam, Abul Kashem Tang, A. T. M. Mijanur Rahman, Asad Ud-Daula

Published in Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences (Volume 6, Issue 2)

Received: 5 February 2018 Accepted: 25 February 2018 Published: 23 April 2018

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Abstract

Breastfeeding practices of mother are effective way for reducing infant morbidity and mortality. Improper breastfeeding along with inadequate complementary feeding are the main reasons for malnutrition among the children in Bangladesh. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess and find the breast feeding practice in selected areas of Dhaka city with respect to socio-economic and demographic condition. Here, 250 mothers and their 250 infants were considered to asses using a formative questionnaire. Within this sample size 129 (51.6%) were male infants and 121 (49.4%) were female infants respectively. This study found that the privilege of breast feeding practice progressively increases with the mother’s education that has been started from less than high school level (below 10 classes) to bachelor’s level or more than higher. In addition, this study found that about 84.8% lactating mothers have knowledge on what are colostrums. But surprisingly only 58% mothers gave colostrums to their infants. Furthermore, we found that the rate of exclusive breast feeding among three months and six months age infants were 51.2% and 27.2% respectively. Therefore, according to findings of this study it could be concluded that mothers in the Dhaka city should give more attention on breast feeding to her infants and subsequently prevent infant mortality and get a healthy child.

Published in	Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.jfns.20180602.14
Page(s)	63-69
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Breastfeeding, Socioeconomic-Demographic, Colostrums, Exclusive

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Salim Raza

Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Technology, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Sabir Hossain

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
M. Masihul Alam

Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Technology, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Abul Kashem Tang

Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Technology, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
A. T. M. Mijanur Rahman

Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Technology, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Asad Ud-Daula

Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Technology, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh

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