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Breastfeeding in infancy: identifying the program-relevant issues in Bangladesh by Rukhsana Haider; Sabrina Rasheed; Tina G Sanghvi; Nazmul Hassan; Helena Pachon; Sanjeeda Islam; Chowdhury SB Jalal is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background In Bangladesh, many programs and projects have been promoting breastfeeding since the late 1980 s. Breastfeeding practices, however, have not improved accordingly. ## Methods For identifying program-relevant issues to improve breastfeeding in infancy, quantitative data were collected through visits to households (n = 356) in rural Chittagong and urban slums in Dhaka, and qualitative data from sub-samples by applying semi-structured in-depth interviews (n = 42), focus group discussions (n = 28), and opportunistic observations (n = 21). Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) (n = 26) were conducted in the above sites and rural Sylhet to determine how best to design further interventions. Our analysis focused on five breastfeeding practices recommended by the World Health Organization: putting baby to the breast within the first hour of birth, feeding colostrum and not giving fluids, food or other substances in the first days of life, breastfeeding on demand, not feeding anything by bottle, and exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months. ## Results The biggest gaps were found to be in putting baby to the breast within the first hour of birth (76% gap), feeding colostr
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- Author
- Rukhsana Haider; Sabrina Rasheed; Tina G Sanghvi; Nazmul Hassan; Helena Pachon; Sanjeeda Islam; Chowdhury SB Jalal
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, 2006-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1746-4358)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)