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This paper examines whether the profile of the respondents: age, number of living children, marital status, income status, employment status, educational background, current feeding practices, and level of knowledge on the importance of EBF has an effect in feeding among infants 0-6 months old. This is a descriptive study using a normative survey with a study population of 102 mothers from the Municipality of Santa Fe, Romblon upon informed consent was secured. The result as follows mothers, whose age ranges from 21 to 25 are the most prevailing, 39%, of the total respondents is practicing EBF. The more children the respondent had the higher the percentage of practicing EBF, 55% said that they are living with a partner, either married through church wedding, civil or in the state of cohabitation, lower-income mothers (45%) practice EBF more compared to other income class. Mothers without job practice EBF more (51%) exclusive breastfeeding are practiced more by elementary graduate mothers (63%), forty-four (44) mothers out of one hundred two (102) respondents are doing exclusive breastfeeding, at least 63% have revealed little knowledge on the importance of exclusive feeding. |
