02 July 2017 02 Jul 2017

What influences women to bottle-feed from birth and to discontinue breastfeeding early?

Breastmilk has been widely advocated as the optimal nutrition for newborn babies and infants In both developing and developed countries, extensive research has produced evidence to sustain claims that early nutrition has a direct influence on infant morbidity and mortality (Department of Health, 2014), and that, for most infants, breastmilk has considerable advantages over formula substitutes