Objective: To introduce practices for improving complementary feeding and evaluate their adoption and association with improved dietary intakes. Design: A quasiexperimental pilot study comparing ...
Dear parent, do you know what is complementary feeding? Sadly, the most common answer to this question would be a NO. While everyone is aware of breastfeeding and the importance of mother’s milk to an ...
After six months of age, breastmilk is no longer sufficient as the only food source. For example, there’s not enough iron and zinc in breastmilk to meet a baby’s growing needs for these ...
Eight focus group interviews were conducted with 45 mothers of children aged 7 or 13 months. Deductive and inductive coding procedures were applied in the analysis. There were marked differences in ...
This infant girl is being fed with her complementary food. MANY Filipino infants and young children between 6 months to 23 months old are not receiving adequate nutrients needed for their optimum ...