Exclusive breastfeeding continues to drop 0 SHARES Share it! Exclusive breastfeeding is feed­ing of breastmilk alone to infants and young children without the introduc­tion of solid or any other liquid food. Among young infants 0 to five months old, exclusive breastfeeding was pegged at 48.8 percent accord­ing to the 2015 nutrition survey. It is 3.5 percent lower than the 52.3 percent exclusive breastfeeding in 2013. In the DOST-FNRI 2013 national nutrition survey, breastfeeding knowl­edge among mothers is high, where 93.4 percent believed that breastfeed­ing is still the best feeding practice for babies.

Source: Manila Bulletin June 15, 2019 09:45 UTC