Infants under 2 years of age in Hubei Province was born and feeding survey.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 3 Infants under 2 years of age in Hubei Province was born and feeding survey Period of rapid growth and development of infants and young children, is a person’s life an important period of growth in physical and mental health. Nutritional status and growth and development are closely related to, reasonable growth and development of feeding for infants and young children provide the necessary energy and nutrients, so feeding behavior directly affects the nutritional status of infants and young children with growth and development. In order to understand infants and young children born in Hubei Province, breastfeeding, complementary feeding situation and related factors affect the feeding behavior in order to take effective health education and behavioral interventions, in 2003, 3 in May of Hubei urban, suburban, rural part of the 2 infants under the age of investigation. An object and methods 1  1 objects using stratified sampling and cluster sampling method of combining, extraction Jiang’an District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei Province, Macheng Lakes and the East and West suburban counties in rural areas, a total of 2100 within the two-year-old infants and their mothers, as the survey , 1975 valid questionnaires were received, of which 637 copies of Wuhan, Wuhan suburb of 628 copies, Macheng County, 710 in rural areas. 1  2 Methods A self-designed questionnaire, by trained investigators through a unified households conducted a questionnaire survey, asking targeted at infants and young children’s mother. Topics covered include social demographic characteristics, circumstances of birth, breastfeeding situation, complementary feeding and so on. 1  3 as early as the definition of suck: within 30min after birth the mother began to suck the nipple. Breastfeeding: within 4 months after birth, except breast milk, the babies do not add other foods (but not drugs, vitamin drops, water, exception). Mixed feeding: within 4 mont