TABLE 1.

Percentage of women with children aged 0–23 months who received breastfeeding counselling from different service providers during pregnancy, delivery (Alive & Thrive Bangladesh) and 1‐month postpartum (PMA2020 Kenya)

Question: Who did you receive this counselling from?
	A&T‐I	A&T‐NI
During pregnancy:	n = 1,330 a (%)	n = 655 a (%)
Doctor/clinical officer/nurse/midwife	16.7	39.7
Government health worker	3.4	10.7
Shasthya Shebika	51.2	12.2
Shasthya Kormi	13.1	10.8
Pushti Kormi	8.0	0.0
Other NGO worker	0.5	5.0
TTBA\TBA\village doctor	1.1	4.7
Family members	5.7	16.1
At delivery:	n = 1,849 b (%)	n = 1,593 b (%)
Doctor/clinical officer/nurse/midwife	21.9	21.7
Government health worker	0.2	0.8
Shasthya Shebika	2.9	1.0
Shasthya Kormi	0.7	0.4
Pushti Kormi	0.4	0.0
Other NGO worker	0	0.2
TTBA\TBA\village doctor	19.8	12.7
Family members	51.9	62.6
Question: During child's first month of life (after delivery/first 2 days) which health provider or community health volunteer/worker talked to you and/or observed your breastfeeding?
	PMA2020 Kenya
1‐month postpartum:	n = 237 c (%)
Doctor/clinical officer	25.0
Nurse/midwife	72.0
Traditional birth attendant	8.0
Community health volunteer/worker	8.0
Other	5.0
No response	1.0

Abbreviations: A&T–I, Alive &Thrive–—Intensive; A&T‐NI, Alive & Thrive—Non‐intensive; TBA, traditional birth attendant; TTBA, trained traditional birth attendant.

^aThose who answered ‘yes’ to the question, ‘During your last pregnancy, did you receive any counselling about breastfeeding infants and young children?’

^bThose who answered ‘yes’ to the question, ‘While you gave birth to your last child, did anyone help or give advice to you regarding breastfeeding?’

^cThose who answered ‘yes’ to the question, ‘During child's first month of life (after delivery/first 2 days), did a health provider or community health volunteer/worker talk to you about how to feed your baby?’