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Table 2 Foods and fluids that mothers (%) would give their babies in different circumstances, by region.

From: A rapid ethnographic study of breastfeeding in the North and South of Italy

Foods and fluids

At birth

Diarrhoea

Thirst

Colic

Fever

 

FVG

BAS

FVG

BAS

FVG

BAS

FVG

BAS

FVG

BAS

Breast milk

99

100

94*

77*

98

93

91*

77*

97

93

Infant formula

55*

41*

50*

26*

58*

38*

52*

27*

56*

38*

Cow milk

6

4

4

4

9

4

4

2

9

4

Water

24*

42*

39*

58*

73

78

30

41

57*

74*

Camomile

19*

32*

32

26

49

53

45*

73*

43

50

Fruit juice

0

0

1

1

16*

33*

0

2

8*

19*

Rice water

1

3

8*

36*

2*

8*

1*

15*

3

7

Vegetable soup

0

0

7

11

18

18

8

10

15*

28*

Cereal porridge

0

0

2*

15*

8*

16*

4*

13*

8*

21*

Homogenised baby foods

0

0

7

10

14

9

6

8

13

18

  1. * p < 0.05
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International Breastfeeding Journal

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