FEEDING PRACTICES AMONG CHILDREN AGED 6-23 MONTHS ATTENDING IMMUNIZATION CLINIC OF A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL ODISHA

Narahari Agasti, Sasmita Kumari Bisoyi, Nupur Patanaik, Swetaleena Ashe, Dr Tapas Ranjan Behera*

FEEDING PRACTICES AMONG CHILDREN AGED 6-23 MONTHS ATTENDING IMMUNIZATION CLINIC OF A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL ODISHA

Narahari Agasti, Sasmita Kumari Bisoyi, Nupur Patanaik, Swetaleena Ashe, Dr Tapas Ranjan Behera*

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Narahari Agasti, Sasmita Kumari Bisoyi, Nupur Patanaik, Swetaleena Ashe, Dr Tapas Ranjan Behera*, “FEEDING PRACTICES AMONG CHILDREN AGED 6-23 MONTHS ATTENDING IMMUNIZATION CLINIC OF A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL ODISHA”, ijmhs, vol. 10, no. 06, pp. 961–963, Jun. 2020.

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BACKGROUND: The time between a child’s birth and 2 years of age is a critical
window of opportunity to ensure the child’s development through optimum feeding
practices.
OBJECTIVE: 1. To study the feeding practices in infants & children between 6-
23months.2. To study the impact of maternal education, occupation & type of family
of the child on the feeding practices. MATERIALS AND METHOD: It was a
hospital based cross sectional study conducted among 451 mothers having children of
age six months to twenty-three months attending Immunisation OPD of SCB Medical
College and Hospital, Cuttack during the month of October 2015 to March 2016 by
using predesigned, pre-tested questionnaire.
RESULT: 75.6% infants exclusively breastfed up to 6 months. 55.9% of the infants
were given colostrum at birth. Only 22.2% of the infants were fed on breast milk
within one hour of birth. 76.1% infants were breast fed on demand and 23.9% infants
were breastfed by clock.
CONCLUSION: About half of the mothers had given colostrum to their babies and
less than one fourth had initiated breast feeding within 1hr of birth which is much
lower to State average according to NFHS-4.
Key words: Immunisation OPD–Exclusive breast feeding–Colostrum–Demand feeding

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