Table 4.
Summarized mothers’ practice about EBF
| Practices variables | Tsedeke [26] et al. Ethiopia,220 |
Jino [27] et al. Rwanda,90 | Mohamed [29] et al. Kenya ,281 |
Adrawa [31] et al. Uganda 385 |
Petit [32] et al. Uganda 203 |
Gewa [35] et al Kenya 400 |
Bayissa [36] et al. Ethiopia 403 |
Asfaw et al. [33] 2015 Ethiopia 634 |
Nkala [34] et al. Tanzania 402 |
Wana [37] et al. Ethiopia 351 |
Ballo [38] et al. Ethiopia 384 |
Tadele [39] et al. Ethiopia n = 314 |
Warillea [40] et al. South Sudan 384 |
Shirima et al. [41] 2001, Tanzania, N = 640 |
Total % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. When did you start breastfeeding after delivery? | |||||||||||||||
| Within one hour | 142 (64.5%) | 200 (74.1%) | 264 (68.6%) | 350 (87.5%) | 264 (71.2) | 448 (70.7%) | 366 (91%) | 216 (61.5%) | 335 (87.2%) | 188 (59.9%) | 296 (76.8%) | 429 (67.0%) | 72.9 | ||
| After one hour | 78 (35.5%) | 70 (25.9%) | 121 (31.4%) | 50 (12.1%) | 93 (25.1%) | 186 (29.3%) | 36 (9%) | 135 (38.5% | 49 (12.8%) | 126 (40.1%) | 89 (23.2%) | 211 (32.9%) | 25.9 | ||
| 2. What is the Daily frequency of breastfeeding? | |||||||||||||||
| On-demand | 209 (66.6%) | 15.8 | |||||||||||||
| Regularly | 101 (32.2%) | 7.6 | |||||||||||||
| Randomly | 4 (1.3%) | 0.3 | |||||||||||||
| < 4 times a day | 6 (2.73%) | 0.4 | |||||||||||||
| > 4 times a day | 214 (97.3) | 16.6 | |||||||||||||
| < 8 | 149 (40.2%) | 11.5 | |||||||||||||
| 8 to12 | 190 (51.2%) | 49 (14%) | 18.0 | ||||||||||||
| > 12 | 32 (8.6%) | 302 (86%) | 25.2 | ||||||||||||
| 3. Do you breastfeed your baby exclusively? | |||||||||||||||
| Yes | 160 (72.7%) | 31 (34.4%) | 128 (45.5%) | 162 (42.1%) | 101 (49.8%) | 272 (68%) | 305 (82.2%) | 435 (68.6%) | 232 (58%) | 197 (56.1%) | 140 (30.5%) | 83 (26.4%) | 243 (63.2%) | 55.9 | |
| No | 60 (27.3%) | 59 (65.5%) | 153 (54.5%) | 223 (57.9%) | 102 (50.1%) | 128 (32%) | 66 (17.8%) | 199 (31.4%) | 170 (42%) | 154 (43.9%) | 244 (63.5%) | 231 (73.6%) | 141 (36.7%) | 43.3 | |
| 4. Did you give colostrum to your baby? | |||||||||||||||
| Yes | 164 (74.6%) | 204 (75.3%) | 387 (96.7%) | 505 (79.9%) | 471 (73.5%) | 79.5 | |||||||||
| No | 56 (25.5%) | 67 (24.7%) | 13 (3.3%) | 129 (20.3%) | 169 (26.4%) | 19.9 | |||||||||
| 5. Have you given your last baby anything before initiating breastfeeding (Prelacteal food)? | |||||||||||||||
| Yes | 12 (6.25%) | 106 (37.7%) | 36 (9.7%) | 88 (22%) | 124 (32. %) | 243 (77.4%) | 156 (40.6%) | 194 (30.3%) | 31.6 | ||||||
| No | 208 (94.5%) | 175 (62.23%) | 335 (90.3%) | 314 (78%) | 260 (68%) | 71 (22.6%) | 228 (59.4%) | 446 (69.6%) | 67.2 | ||||||