ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE ON COLOSTRUM FEEDING & BREAST-FEEDING TECHNIQUE WITH SELECTED SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES.

Abstract

Breasts produce colostrum beginning during pregnancy and continuing through the early days of breastfeeding. This special milk is yellow to orange in color and thick and sticky. It is low in fat, and high in carbohydrates, protein, and antibodies to help keep baby healthy. Colostrum is extremely easy to digest, and is therefore the perfect first food for your baby. It is low in volume (measurable in teaspoons rather than ounces), but high in concentrated nutrition for the newborn. Colostrum has a laxative effect on the baby, helping him pass his early stools, which aids in the excretion of excess bilirubin and helps prevent jaundice. Setting and Design: A quantitative evaluative research approach was used in the current study. A pre experimental one group pre-test post-test group design. In the present study the setting was the selected hospitals of Bangalore. The target population was primi gravida mothers. The sample and the sample size in the present study is 100 primi gravida mothers from selected hospitals of Bangalore. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used in the present study. Results: The result shows that educational status of primi gravida mothers (p<0.029), and occupation of mothers (P<0.046) found significantly associated with pre-test knowledge level of mothers at significance level, whereas the remaining demographic variables found non- significant at similar level of significance. Therefore, the research hypothesis H2 accepted for these two variables the educational status and occupation of primi gravida mothers at 0.05 level of significance, whereas for remaining variables the H2 got rejected.