introduction: quality of life is individuals’ perception of their status in life in the context of the culture and value systems they live in. pregnancy has a great impact on mothers and their quality of life. prenatal classes provide mothers with information about pregnancy, labor process and newborn care. objective:the present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of prenatal classes on ...

conclusions a significant number of pregnant mothers had average knowledge that indicating necessity of interventional programs by health system, particularly for pregnant mothers with lower education level. background breastfeeding is accepted as the most desirable method of infant nurturing. objectives this study aimed to investigate pregnant mothers’ knowledge about breastfeeding as well as ...

atopy can be defined as the genetically determined risk to develop allergic disease. avoidance of one specific allergen may decrease the risk for sensitization against this allergen, but it will not affect atopy. our aim was to investigate if exclusive breast-feeding is associated with atopic dermatitis during the first 5 years of life. data on 200 children were taken from parental-administered...

the present analytical study was designed to determine the factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding in primary health centers of kermanshah in 2007. 168 mothers with infants aged 6-12 months, with or without exclusive breastfeeding were studied. data analysis was carried out using descriptive and analytic statistics. in exclusive breastfeeding group the respiratory and gastrointestinal d...

this study was conducted to investigate factors hindering the flow of breast milk, thus interfering with breast feeding during six weeks post delivery in women attending the health units associated with iran medical university in tehran (1993)   a total of 240 mothers were selected of whom 180 nursed their babies exclusively and 60 of them were giving addional helping formula.   based on the fi...

introduction: clinical policies of “10 steps of breast feeding” proposed by world health organization (who) can promote breast feeding. the goal of this study was to evaluate breast feeding in the first hour after birth and its relation to the influencing factors. material and methods: in this cross-sectional study, the data is related to mothers and infants referring to two baby friendly hospi...

BACKGROUND Exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) is the practice of feeding only breast milk (including expressed breast milk) during the first six months and no other liquids and solid foods except medications. The time to cessation of exclusive breast-feeding, however, is different in different countries depending on different factors. Studies showed the risk of diarrhea morbidity and mortality is h...