Association Between the Level of Practice on Colostrum Feeding & Breast-Feeding Technique With Selected Socio- Demographic Variables

WHO universally recommends colostrum, a mother's first milk or the 'very first food', as the perfect food for every newborn The sticky, yellowish substance produced by the mother soon after birth is ideal for the newborn - in composition, in quantity and rich in antibodies. Colostrum not only nourishes, it also protects. It is just what the baby needs during its first few days. Colostrum needs to start in the first hour. Setting and Design: A quantitative evaluative research approach was used in the current study. A pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test group design. In the present study the setting was the selected hospitals of Bangalore. The target population was primi gravida mothers. The sample and the sample size in the present study is 100 primi gravida mothers from selected hospitals of Bangalore. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used in the present study. Results: The result shows that educational status of primi gravida mothers (p<0.002) found significantly associated with pre-test practice level of mothers at 0.05 significance level, whereas the remaining demographic variables found non-significant at similar level of significance.