3. Introduction
The time between a child’s birth and 2 years of age
is critical window of opportunity to ensure the child’s
development through optimum feeding practices .
Even mild or moderate under nutrition during this
period can cause irreversible damage . As an infant
completes 6 months of age, a mother’s milk is no
longer sufficient to fulfill the child’s increasing
nutritional need.
Optimal infant and young child feeding can have the
potential to prevent an estimated 19 % of all under-
five deaths, more than any other single preventive
intervention .
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4. Therefore, World Health Organization (WHO)
has recommended core indicators for infant and
young child feeding (IYCF), of which timely
introduction of soft, solid or semi-solid foods,
minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal
frequency, and minimum acceptable diet are
related to late infancy, and thereafter up to 2
years of age .
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5. Objectives
General Objectives
To review the available literatures to find out the
current scenario of Infant and Young Children
feeding practice in Nepal.
Specific Objectives
1.To find out the status of Infant and Young
Children feeding practice in Nepal.
2.To review different studies and researches
regarding the Infant and Young Children feeding
Practice in Nepal.
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6. Methodology
To make this term paper, I took help from
different literatures and researches.
I have used different search engines such as
pubmed, google scholer and so on. The
keywords used are “Infant and young child
feeding practice in Nepal”, “Feeding practice
and Nepal”, “WHO criteria and Infant and child
feeding practice” and so on. The number of
literatures I reviewed are about 20 and I used
information from about 12 literatures.
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7. Findings : IYCF In Nepal
Nepal has achieved a significant reduction in
mortality and morbidity amongst children
under-five and women in the last decade .
Policy commitment to decentralization and
implementation of priority programs has
improved access to maternal and child health
services and contributed to achievement of
most of the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) .
Nepal is signatory to Agenda 2030, also
known as the Sustainable Development Goals.
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8. The 2016 NDHS collected data on infant and young child
feeding (IYCF) practices for all children born in the 2 years
preceding the survey.
Overall, 55% of last born children in the 2 years preceding
the survey were breastfed within 1 hour of birth.
Contrary to the recommendation that children under age 6
months be exclusively breastfed, only 66% of the infants
under age 6 months were found to be exclusively breastfed.
In addition to breast milk, 6% of these young infants
consume plain water, 6% consume non-milk liquids, 10%
consume other milk, and 12% consume complementary
foods.
Eighty-three percent of children age 6-8 months receive
timely complementary foods, and only 10% of children age3/20/2018
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14. Findings from different
Researches in Nepal
Researcher: Shrestha PS, Melander L et.al
Place and Date: Bhaktapur, Nepal ,2012
Sample Taken: 325
Major Findings: Three quarters of all mothers
reported that they did not receive any
information on breastfeeding during the
antenatal visit. Two hundred and ninety five
(91%) mothers gave colostrum and 185 (57%)
initiated breastfeeding within one hour of
delivery.
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15. Researcher: Chapaign RH
Place and Date: Mahendranagar, Nepal , 2013
Sample Taken: 1100
Major Findings: More than half (56.81%)
mothers fed their children complementary food
of appropriate consistency; 366 (33.27%) fed
with recommended frequency and 834
(75.82%) with the appropriate amount.
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16. Researcher: Gautam KP, Adikari M et.al
Place and Date: Rupendehi, Nepal , 2016
Sample Taken: 178
Major Findings: Only 57 % of mothers initiated
complementary feeding at the age of 6
months.
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17. Conclusion
From the above report or term paper I come to
the conclusion that the infant and young
children feeding practice in Nepal is
satisfactory .
These kinds of feeding practice can lead to
prevalence of Protein Energy/Calorie
Malnutrition and many others nutritional
disorders in infants, children and even adult.
The IYCF condition of Nepal is improving
nowadays but the country is not being able to
adopt the feeding guideline strictly,
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18. Different research and studies are being
conducting in different areas of Nepal but
these studies are limited within the cross-
sectional.
One third of the children are not attending
complementary feeding practices and some
are not even getting minimum acceptable
foods .
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19. Recommendations
Initiation of breastfeeding within an hour of
birth.
Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six
months.
Complementary feeding after six months
Continued breastfeeding for 2 years and
beyond.
Protect, promote and support optimal feeding
practice of children through Infant and young
children feeding practice expansion.3/20/2018
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