From: Early interruption of exclusive breastfeeding: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study
MAL-ED study sites 1 | BGD | INV | NEB | PKN | BRF | PEL | SAV | TZH |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Initiation (%) | ||||||||
Within 1 hour | 60.9 | 59.1 | 40.8 | 7.4 | 46.3 | 73.7 | 59.7 | 83.2 |
1 - 24 h | 33.6 | 36.4 | 49.2 | 71.8 | 51.5 | 23.9 | 35.5 | 14.8 |
1 - 3 d | 5.1 | 4.5 | 9.2 | 18.6 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 1.6 |
4 + d | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Never | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 0.0 |
Not fed colostrum (%) | 1.6 | 9.9 | 3.4 | 16.4 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 4.5 | 8.6 |
Prelacteal feeding (%) | 13.3 | 12.4 | 17.7 | 63.2 | 6.9 | 9.2 | 3.7 | 5.1 |
Exclusively Breastfed at 30 d (%)2 | 84.7 | 81.0 | 55.5 | 4.5 | 59.7 | 38.2 | 29.5 | 55.9 |
Fully Breastfed at 30 d (%)2,3 | 90.6 | 87.6 | 70.6 | 7.4 | 68.4 | 77.1 | 58.6 | 58.2 |
Partially Breastfed at 30 d (%)4 | 9.4 | 11.2 | 29.4 | 92.6 | 29.4 | 22.5 | 36.6 | 41.8 |
Completely weaned by 30 d (%)5 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 0.0 |