All India Congress of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 04–08 Jan 2009 · Birla Auditorium, Jaipur

The nature has designed the provision that infants be fed upon their mothers milk. They find their food and mothers at the same time It is a complete nourishment for them both for their body and soul Rabindra Nath Tagore Ironically Breast Feeding has been threatened in India in the name of modernization and urbanization . The present study was conducted to determine Knowledge of breast-feeding and breast-feeding practices in 3000 mothers who delivered at Panna Dhai Zanna Hospital Udaipur for a period of 5 years and to identify the impact of prevaling educational, socioeconomic &cultural system on breast-feeding mothers were interviewed using a standardized Performa regarding knowledge of…