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Reasons for formula feeding among rural Bangladeshi mothers: A qualitative exploration.
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- The effect of electronic job aid assisted one-to-one counselling to support exclusive breastfeeding among 0-5-month-old infants in rural Bangladesh.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Trial
- Assessing the causal relationship between women's empowerment and exclusive breastfeeding practices among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh using BDHS 2022 survey data.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
- Breast-Milk Substitutes and Associated Factors Among Mothers With Infants Younger Than Six Months of Age in North Shewa District, Oromia, Ethiopia, 2023. A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
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- Evaluation of Mineral Content in Preterm Human Milk and Infant Formulas in Qatar: Assessing Compliance With Dietary Recommendations and Label Accuracy.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Exploring the social representations of breastfeeding among mothers and grandmothers in Uruguay using word association.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Article
- Facilitators, barriers, and key influencers of breastfeeding among low birthweight infants: a qualitative study in India, Malawi, and Tanzania.International breastfeeding journal · 2023Article
- Infant feeding choices among Panamanian mothers: A qualitative study.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- Concordance of the Deuterium Dose to Mother Method and 24-Hour Recall to Measure Exclusive Breastfeeding at 6 Weeks Postnatally in Rural/Urban Setting in Jamaica.Maternal and child health journal · 2022Article
- Effect of baby food marketing exposure on infant and young child feeding regimes in Bangkok, Thailand.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Article
- Barriers to breastfeeding are shaped by sociocultural context: an exploratory qualitative study in Bangladesh.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2022Article
- Violations of International Code of Breast-milk Substitutes (BMS) in commercial settings and media in Bangladesh.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- Breastfeeding practices among Syrian refugees in Turkey.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Article
- Hidden Realities of Infant Feeding: Systematic Review of Qualitative Findings from Parents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Formula Feeding and Associated Factors among a Group of Egyptian Mothers.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
In Bangladesh the exclusive breastfeeding rate remains low and prelacteal, formula and bottle feeding is increasing. This study aims to explore reasons behind infant formula feeding practices from mothers, caregivers, and health care provider's perspective. This was a qualitative study carried out in four sub-districts of Sylhet and Jessore of rural Bangladesh. Data were collected through focus group discussions (12), in-depth interviews (4) and key informant interviews (12) from January to February 2014. The qualitative data collected and were analyzed using thematic content analysis. This study clearly showed the factor behind formula feeding by Bangladeshi rural women. One of the major findings was that women could not differentiate between formula and other milk. Main differences between formula and powder milk were the type of consumer where formula only was taken by infant and children less than 2 years. Other major reasons include; poor breastfeeding practices, lack of appropriate breastfeeding practices, superficial knowledge on harmful effect on infant formula; perceived insufficient breast milk production, the influence of family and society and authoritarian power of hospital staff. Rural mothers have intension to feed infant formula to their infants due to various factors including individual, social, cultural and institutional. These identified factors can contribute to policy making and develop more specific interventions targeting expected mother and their family members that can contribute to stop formula feeding and increase breastfeeding practices in rural Bangladesh.
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