caa a22 4500 477068251 CHVBK 20180405111418.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02730931 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02730931 Age during breast feeding and timely suckling [Elektronische Daten] [Ajay Vatsayan, Anmol K. Gupta, Dineshwar Dhadwal, Surendra K. Ahluwalia, Rakesh Sharma, Rajesh K. Sood] A cross sectional study of 398 mothers and infants was conducted to assess the age at first breast feeding, and its determinants,in Shimla. We found that the timely first suckling rate was 0.10 in urban group and 0.11 in rural group. The median age at initiation of breast feeding was five hours among urban cases and four hours among rural cases. Most of the infants were breast fed by the age of 24 hours which is a positive sign and is higher than previous studies. Absence of definite trendvs mother's education may be due to other factors. A community-based educational programme to promote early breast feeding is required, along with training on lactation management counselling for health workers. This will help in achieving healthy child development through prevention of childhood malnutrition. Dr. K C Chaudhuri Foundation, 1996 Breast feeding nationallicence Vatsayan Ajay Department of OBG, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla aut K. Gupta Anmol aut Dhadwal Dineshwar aut K. Ahluwalia Surendra Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla aut Sharma Rakesh Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla aut K. Sood Rajesh Associated Hospitals, India aut The Indian Journal of Pediatrics Springer India 63/6(1996-11-01), 791-794 0019-5456 63:6<791 1996 63 12098 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02730931 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02730931 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vatsayan Ajay Department of OBG, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- K. Gupta Anmol aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dhadwal Dineshwar aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- K. Ahluwalia Surendra Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sharma Rakesh Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- K. Sood Rajesh Associated Hospitals, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Indian Journal of Pediatrics Springer India 63/6(1996-11-01), 791-794 0019-5456 63:6<791 1996 63 12098 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer