Breast feeding; awareness and complementary feeding in mothers of children with severe acute malnutrition at Nutrition Stabilization Centre Children Hospital and Institute Of Child Health Multan

ABSTRACT

Background: breast feeding is the most natural way of feeding the infants and help to reduce child mortality and morbidity and millions of deaths could be prevented each year if mothers were aware of benefits of exclusive breast feeding for 4 -6 months and early initiation of breast feeding