• FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO INADEQUATE EXCLUSIVE BREAST FEEDING OF CHILDREN AGED 0-6 MONTHS


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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Adequate nutrition at early childhood is essential to ensure healthy growth and development of children, Breast feeding offer health benefits to mother and child when exclusively breast fed. Children aged less than 5 years are dying due to inadequate exclusive breast feeding practices. The objective of this study is to assess factors contributing to inadequate exclusive breast feeding to infant aged 0-6 months in Tanzania. Quantitative descriptive cross-section study design used, 284 nursing mothers admitted at MNH with their children aged 6- 60 months. Structured self administered were analy ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]1.0 INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND1.1 IntroductionMilk is the primary source of nutrition for newborns before able being to digest other foods other than milk (UNICEF, 2006). Breast milk is the milk produced by the breast (or mammary glands) of the human female for her infant offspring. Breast feeding offer health benefits to mother and child when exclusively breast fed. Among the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding to Infants are lower risk of infant Death Syndrome, Increased intelligence, decrease, Cold and flu resistances, lower risk of childhood onset diabetes, risk of asthma and eczema, decrease ... Continue Reading