Exclusive Breastfeeding and Normative Belief among Rural Mothers in Ethiopia, 2019: A Cross-Sectional Survey Embedded with Qualitative Design

Table 3

Breastfeeding practice of the mother having a child less than 2 years of age, Ethiopia, 2019.

Practice of the mother for child feeding	Category	Frequency	Percentage
Breastfeeding initiation
	Immediately	268	65.8
	After 1 hour	110	26.9
	After a day	30	7.3
Gave food (water, homemade nonformula foods, and cow’s milk & butter)other than breast milk in the first 3 days of birth
	Yes	57	14
	No	351	86
Types of food given
	Plain water	27	47.2
	Sugar solution	19	33.3
	Cow’s milk	11	19.4
No food given other than breast milk before the sixth month (N = 328)?
	Yes	255	77.5
	No	73	22.5
When do you usually feed the child?
	When the child likes to have	307	75.3
	When the child cries	101	24.7
No. of breast milk feedings per day
	<8	147	36.2
	8–12	227	55.8
	>12	34	8.1
Age of the child in months when breastfeeding was stopped
	<16	119	29.2
	17–23	185	45.3
	>23	104	25.5
Start complimentary feeding practice at the sixth month (N = 209)
	Yes	185	88.6
	No	24	11.4

Breast engorgement and when the mother was free of work are included.