Effect of Beliefs and Habits for Family on Infant Feeding | ||
| Bulletin of the National Nutrition Institute of the Arab Republic of Egypt | ||
| Volume 59, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages 84-104 PDF (1.14 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/bnni.2022.245663 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hamida Ahmed Helal1; Nehad R El-Tahan1; Afaf A. Tawfik2; Salwa M Saleh2; Mohamed A. El-Afify* 2 | ||
| 1Nutrition and Food science Dep., Faculty of Home Economics, Menoufia University-Egypt | ||
| 2Field Studies and Research Department -National Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Poor dietary habits established during childhood might persist into adulthood, increasing the risk of developing malnutrition-related complications such as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, underweight, and obesity. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of beliefs and habits of the family on child feeding for 138 children whose ages were 6-24-month-old, their mothers attending the National Institute of Nutrition in the educational kitchen. Data for the research was collected through a questionnaire. The infant was fed on complimentary meals for 6 months the weight, height, and hemoglobin levels were determined before and after feeding. It was found that 63% gave birth by cesarean section, and 43% of the sample had knowledge about breastfeeding from their relatives. About half of the sample (42%) started breastfeeding immediately after birth, while (72. 6%) of mothers used flued breastfeeding and supplied another source of fluid by grandmother encouragement. The results showed that 65.2% did not know the benefits of colostrum milk. The impact of the daily meals (NNI diet) after 6 months showed that it could be noticed that the macronutrients were increased after eating complimentary meals than they were before except carbohydrates level was decreased with complimentary meals. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Complementary feeding; breastfeeding; colostrum milk | ||
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