Infant-feeding practices among immigrants in Glasgow.

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Maternal HIV status and infant feeding practices among Ugandan women.

To describe the infant feeding practices in the general population in Uganda, and to assess the impact of maternal HIV status on these practices, a questionnaire was administered to women attending the follow-up clinics for child vaccination. Among the mothers who were still breastfeeding at the time of interview (N=838), 61.4% of the HIV-infected women had planned to breastfeed for a maximum o...

Infant feeding practices in Bombay slums.

A study was conducted in two slum areas in a Bombay suburb covering a total population of 4879. One hundred and fifty-three mothers having children below two years were interviewed. Ninety six per cent infants below the age of 4 months received breast milk, though exclusive breastfeeding was practised only in 37% infants. Timely complementary feeding rate was only 0.48. Twenty three per cent of...

Association of infant child care with infant feeding practices and weight gain among US infants.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether child care arrangements influence infant feeding practices and weight gain among US infants. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data collected by the US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. SETTING A nationally representative sample of infants enrolled in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort at baseline. PARTICIPANT...

Infant feeding practices: a cause for concern.

Cases of infants with life-threatening nutritional deficiencies due to certain strict vegetarian or macrobiotic diets have recently been reported.'-7 It has been suggested that in some instances this should be regarded as a form of child abuse.' We have recently come across infants who have been severely ill as a result of similar nutritionally inadequate diets. During the past 12 months nine h...