Infant feeding practices of low-income mothers.
This study describes infant feeding practices over the first year of life for 294 medically indigent, inner city mothers. These findings highlight the need for interventions to improve infant feeding knowledge and practices throughout the first year of life. Nutritional problems identified included low rates of breast-feeding; early introduction of solid food, especially cereal in the bottle; and excessive use of foods that are high in sugar.
Solem
B J
BJ
Norr
K F
KF
Gallo
A M
AM
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009035:Mothers; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D011203:Poverty; D014505:Urban Population