title: Breast-feeding patterns in a rural village in Giza, Egypt.
abstract: In a longitudinal study of infant feeding in rural Giza, Egypt, we found that 68.8% of the recruited mothers initiated early suckling of colostrum, but only 51.2% of the infants were exclusively breast-fed in the first week. Solid foods were introduced much earlier than at the recommended age of 4 to 6 months. Sixty percent of the mothers who participated in the study considered breast-feeding plus regular or irregular complementary feeding to be exclusive breast-feeding.
authors.affiliation: Child Health Department, National Research Center, Giza, Egypt.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Hakim
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: el-Ashmawy
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000208:ethnology*; D004534:Egypt; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D012424:Rural Population