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  • Title: Fluids and powders: options for infant feeding.
    Author: O'Gara C, Kendall C.
    Journal: Med Anthropol; 1985; 9(2):107-22. PubMed ID: 3879730.
    Abstract:
    This study involved collecting qualitative and quantitative data to investigate infant feeding practices in an urban low-income population of Central America, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Ethnographic information, the subject of the article, was collected over a 9-month period in 1981-1982 in a longitudinal study of 75 families with infants. A subsequent census of more than 5000 households strengthened the results of the ethnographic study. Taxonomy of milk fed to infants was the most useful analysis for understanding infant feeding practices at the household level in the low-income culture of Tegucigalpa. This paper presents a taxonomy of milks fed to infants and explores infant feeding behavior in light of those beliefs. 2 prenatal visits were usually made to each mother. Each participating family was assigned to a fieldworker. Periodic visits were also made following the birth of the infant. The data derived from the 9-month study consist of detailed case histories; comments and explorations of hypotheses by the fieldworkers; infant feeding histories; texts of interviews with mothers and other family members; morbidity, mortality, and growth records; and extensive observational descriptions by the fieldworkers of mothers, infants, and their families. In urban Honduras, the majority of the women combine breastfeeding with feeding a breastmilk substitute to their infants. Over 95% of mothers initiate breastfeeding. 1/2 of all infants are completely weaned from the breast midway through their 1st year. Bottlefeeding is associated with infant morbidity, especially diarrhea. Breastfeeding is associated with reduced morbidity and improved growth.
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