Food introduction in infants from a maternal perspective
International Journal of Development Research
Food introduction in infants from a maternal perspective
Received 17th September, 2019; Received in revised form 06th October, 2019; Accepted 02nd November, 2019; Published online 31th December, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Ana Carlla Soares de Assis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Food introduction is essential for good child growth and development as well as ensuring good feeding practices. Therefore, culturally widespread misguided habits may cause long-term damage in an infant’s growth and development, making it necessary to understand motherly vision on complementary feeding. Thus, through a transverse analytical research, both qualitative and quantitative in design, applied with 73 infant’s mothers in a referential pediatric ambulatory, it was possible to identify feeding mistakes made by parents regarding food introduction due to lack of proper information. In doing so, food introduction practices by the mothers was profiled showing that it has occurred in a premature way. Overall, it is possible to present measures that improve nutritional profile and reflect better life quality for infants.
