title: Coverage and determinants of newborn feeding practices in rural Burkina Faso.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Newborn feeding practices are important to neonatal health and survival, but understudied in sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed the prevalence and determinants of newborn feeding practices in Burkina Faso.
  
  
  METHODS
  An 18 000 household survey was conducted in rural Burkina Faso in 2010 to 2011. Women of reproductive age were asked about antenatal, delivery and newborn care practices for their most recent live birth. Coverage of newborn feeding practices was estimated and multivariate regression was used to assess determinants of these practices.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy-six percent of live births were breastfed within 24 h of birth, 84% were given colostrum and 21% received prelacteals. Facility delivery and antenatal care attendance were associated with positive feeding practices.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Positive newborn feeding practices were common in rural Burkina Faso, relative to other low-income settings. Interventions are needed to improve feeding practices among home-born babies, and to encourage earlier initiation of breastfeeding among facility-born newborns.
authors: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors: M K
authors: MK
authors: Munos
authors: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors: L C
authors: LC
authors: Mullany
authors: 1] Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population, Université de Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso [2] Université catholique de Louvain, Centre de Recherche en Demographie et Societés, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Maïga
authors: 1] Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population, Université de Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso [2] Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Baya
authors: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Bryce
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding; D002050:Burkina Faso; D003126:Colostrum; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care / Q000379:methods*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012424:Rural Population