Sandra Fikawati, Ahmad Syafiq
ABSTRACT
A cross-sectional study was done to investigate the relationship between immediate breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding for 4 months in 4 districts in West Java and 4 districts in East Java. Subjects were selected through 30-cluster method of WHO and a number of 1,377 mothers with infants under one year old were interviewed. Data was collected in March-April 2002. The study found that mothers who gave immediate breastfeeding was 21.16% and mother who exclusively breastfeed their infants until 4-5 months of age was 9.2%. Mothers who did not give immediate breastfeeding had 1.8 to 5.3 times higher risk to provide pre-lacteal food/beverages compared to mothers who gave immediate breastfeeding. Another finding was mothers who gave immediate breastfeeding had 2 to 8 times higher possibility to exclusively breastfeed their infants compared to mothers who did not give immediate breastfeeding. The study showed that the failure to exclusively breastfeed had already occurred at the first three days after birth, when pre-lacteal food/beverages were given to the infant. It was suspected that there were factors other than mother’s knowledge that contributed to the failure of exclusive breastfeeding practice.(deniaprianichan)
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