Prospective KAP study of Working Mothers regarding Feeding Their Children
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.60127/sjms.4.4.2026.98Abstract
Objectives: The present study aimed to access the mother’s exclusive breastfeed actual weaning and feeding knowledge and practices used with their infants and the factors influencing mothers for the choice of feeding methods.
Methods: A prospective study was carried out on registered patients presented in Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital, Sialkot during the month of February 2025.
Results: About 95% of mothers had higher education, about 5% had no education at all, about 61 % mothers exclusively breastfed their infant, almost 94 % mothers agreed on fact that breastfeeding is sufficient for their infant in initial months but 6% contraindicated on this belief and About 96% received guidelines from both healthcare professionals and 4% received advices from friends and family.
Conclusion: Almost all mothers agreed that breastfeeding was sufficient for their infant since they that had proper guidelines due to their educational status and workplace but since they had to work for consecutive hours, so they couldn’t breastfeed their infant at regular intervals and most had to use formula milk too.
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