After receiving infant feeding counseling, women who indicated intent to breastfeed and met other study inclusion criteria were enrolled at 34 weeks gestation.
Results indicated that receiving infant feeding counselling as part of the PMTCT programme was significantly associated with the decision to exclusively breastfeed (OR (95% CI) 5.38 (1.83 to 15.81)).
This is a regional referral centre based in a University Teaching Hospital which receives infants both from the hospital's obstetric unit and surrounding district general hospitals.
In a sample of infants from Southern Ontario, Canada, 18% had received infant cereal by four months [ 36].
Currently in South Africa, mothers receive infant feeding counselling from health professionals through the public health system.
During hospitalization, he received infant formula made by the hospital nutritional department through nasogastric tube.
In Ukraine, 44% of internally displaced mothers received infant formula as part of baby food humanitarian assistance package.
Mothers received infant-feeding counselling during antenatal care and were allowed to make informed choices on EBMS or EBF.
With regard to LGG supplementation, data limited to only one trial suggest that infants who received infant formula supplemented with LGG grew better.
The HIV positive pregnant women should receive infant feeding counselling in accordance with the 2006 WHO infant feeding update [ 6, 7].
