Abstract
Under nutrition is not simply a result of food insecurity, but due to inappropriate infant feeding and care practices. Child health programs currently do not focus adequately on improving public awareness of the importance of breastfeeding and on providing adequate knowledge and counseling skills. Considering the culture of respecting and obeying the family senior citizens in India, when a baby is born in the family there are all kinds of grandmothers (mother and mother in law) who are ready to advice the new mother. Grandmother plays a vital role in decisions regarding what, when ,how, how much to feed a baby and all queries which mother may have asked a doctor but listened and behaved in accordance to her. So testing the knowledge, attitude and practices of grandmothers is must if we want improve the situation of malnutrition. This paper, which is a pilot study, compares child breastfeeding and complementary feeding beliefs and behaviors of paternal and maternal grandmothers and also the mothers.
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