Prelacteal feeds were defined as any food item given within the first three days.
Functional feeds are defined as high-quality feeds that, beyond their nutritional composition, are formulated with health promoting features that could be beneficial in supporting disease resistance and mitigation of clinical disease symptoms.
Optimal infant and young child feeding is defined globally as early and exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of a child's life, and continued breastfeeding for up to 2 years or longer, with the gradual introduction of age-appropriate, nutrient rich complementary foods from 6 months.
The patient's intolerance to feeding was defined on the basis of clinical signs (abdominal distention, vomiting, increase in serum lactate, high gastric residual volume).
Poor feeding was defined as the loss of appetite as stated by the parent in the case of infants and young children or by the individual if the child was coherent (older children).
Here, ground-level feeding is defined as feeding on vegetation within 1 m of ground height, mid-height feeding is defined as feeding between ground height and 10 m, and upper canopy feeding is feeding at all heights above 10 m.
Complementary and/or replacement feeding is defined as an intake pattern that includes breast milk and solid or semi-solid foods [ 43].
Gregarious feeding is defined by clustered siblings feeding and congregated development (without independent larval tunnels and pupal cradles), often forming variously rounded or cave-like structures in the wood.
Exclusive breast feeding is defined as the infant receiving only breast milk since birth with no other liquids or solids with the exception of drops or syrups consisting of vitamins, mineral supplements or medicines.
Exclusive breast feeding was defined as breast feeding with no added supplements, and mixed breast-feeding was defined as breast-feeding with additional supplementary feeds (excluding medications).
