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- Title
Adherence with early infant feeding and complementary feeding guidelines in the Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study.
- Authors
O’Donovan, Sinéad M; Murray, Deirdre M; Hourihane, Jonathan O’B; Kenny, Louise C; Irvine, Alan D; Kiely, Mairead; O'Donovan, Sinéad M; Hourihane, Jonathan O'B
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To describe adherence with infant feeding and complementary feeding guidelines.<bold>Design: </bold>Prospective study of infant feeding and complementary feeding practices were collected as part of the Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study.<bold>Setting: </bold>Cork, Ireland.<bold>Subjects: </bold>Data are described for the 823 infants for whom a diary was completed.<bold>Results: </bold>Breast-feeding was initiated in 81 % of infants, and 34 %, 14 % and 1 % of infants were exclusively breast-fed at hospital discharge, 2 and 6 months, respectively. Stage one infant formula decreased from 71 % at 2 months to 13 % at 12 months. The majority of infants (79 %) were introduced to solids between 17 and 26 weeks and 18 % were given solid foods before 17 weeks. Mothers of infants who commenced complementary feeding prior to 17 weeks were younger (29·8 v. 31·5 years; P<0·001) and more likely to smoke (18 v. 8 %; P=0·004). The first food was usually baby rice (69 %), infant breakfast cereals (14 %) or fruit/vegetables (14 %). Meals were generally home-made (49 %), cereal-based (35 %), manufactured (10 %), dairy (3 %) and dessert-based (3 %). The median gap between the first-second, second-third, third-fourth and fourth-fifth new foods was 4, 2, 2 and 2 d, respectively.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>We present the largest prospective cohort study to date on early infant feeding in Ireland. The rate of breast-feeding is low by international norms. Most mothers introduce complementary foods between 4 and 6 months with lengthy gaps between each new food/food product. There is a high prevalence of exposure to infant breakfast cereals, which are composite foods, among the first foods introduced.
- Subjects
IRELAND; BREASTFEEDING; BABY foods; PATIENT compliance; BREAKFAST cereals; HOSPITAL admission & discharge; AGE distribution; DIET; FRUIT; INFANT formulas; INFANTS; LONGITUDINAL method; MOTHERS; NUTRITIONAL requirements; VEGETABLES; FOOD diaries
- Publication
Public Health Nutrition, 2015, Vol 18, Issue 15, p2864
- ISSN
1368-9800
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1017/S136898001500018X