THE STUDY OF EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING AMONG NURSING MOTHERS

This study centers on the study of exclusive breastfeeding among nursing mothers (A case study of the nursing mothers, in Enugu State College of Education Technical). The basic identified problem is that in spite of the importance of exclusive breast feeding, some nursing mothers are yet to adopt it. Therefore, the objective of this study is to find out the extent to which nursing mothers breastfeed their young ones and to propel those who finds it difficult to breastfeed constantly, for them to be able to continue pronto to exclusive breastfeeding. Consequently, questionnaire were designed and administered while simple percentage (%) was adopted as instrument for analysis. Moreover, the research design of this is descriptive survey research, I used sample size of 11o and the sample selected for the study is fifty (50) while simple sampling technique is used. Finally, the health sectors should employ health practitioners to sensitize nursing mothers more on the effects of exclusive breastfeeding.

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