Though breast feeding is continued through ages, myths regarding breast feeding practices still continued. We conducted a questionnaire based cross-sectional study in our institute. In our study we found that Partial breast feeding practices predominate over exclusive breast feeding practices, Myths regarding colostrum exist in todays era also Various factors correlates with non adherance for exclusive breast feeding like; education of mother, socioeconomic status, working mothers, use of prelacteals, use of pacifiers, proper initiation of breastfeeding, type of fding to previous child, frequency of night feedees.
Keywords: Colostrum; Socioeconomic status; Prelacteals; Pacifiers.
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