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Bottle-feeding is discouraged among very young children. It is usually associated with increased
risk of illness, especially diarrheal disease, because of the difficulty in sterilizing the nipples properly.
Bottle-feeding also shortens the period of postpartum amenorrhea and increases the risk of pregnancy.
The practice of bottle-feeding with a nipple is not common in Ethiopia. However, the proportion of
children who are bottle fed rises from 13 percent among children age less than 4 months to 21 percent
among children age 4-5 months, after which it declines gradually to less than 1 percent among children
34-35 months of age.
11.3 DURATION AND FREQUENCY OF BREASTFEEDING
The median duration of breastfeeding by selected background characteristics is shown in Table
11.3. The estimates of mean and median duration of breastfeeding are based on current status data, that
is, the proportion of children under three years who were being breastfed at the time of the survey.
Table 11.3 Median duration and frequency of breastfeeding
Median durations of any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, and predominant breastfeeding among children born in the
three years preceding the survey, and the percentage of breastfeeding children under six months who were breastfed six
or more times in the 24 hours preceding the survey, and mean number of feeds (day/night), by background characteristics,
Ethiopia 2000
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Breastfeeding children under six months 3
Median duration (months) of breastfeeding
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Percentage
Pre- breastfed Mean number
Any Exclusive dominant Number 6+ times of feeds Number
Background breast- breast- breast- of in last
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of
characteristic feeding feeding feeding 1 children 2 24 hours Day Night children
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Sex of child
Male
Female
25.8 2.4 4.5 3,641 96.9 7.9 6.3 560
25.2 2.7 3.9 3,524 94.5 7.9 6.1 518
Residence
Urban
Rural
Region
Tigray
Affar
Amhara
Oromiya
Somali
Benishangul-Gumuz
SNNP
Gambela
Harari
Addis Ababa
Dire Dawa
Mother's education
No education
Primary
Secondary and higher
All children
23.3 1.8 3.4 724 92.4 7.0 5.3 104
25.7 2.6 4.3 6,441 96.2 8.0 6.3 974
27.3 3.2 5.0 444 92.8 8.2 5.6 69
20.5 0.6 0.6 71 96.4 8.8 6.4 10
30.4 4.6 7.3 1,835 97.9 7.8 6.8 281
23.9 2.4 3.6 2,981 94.4 8.0 6.1 421
13.5 0.4 0.6 80 80.1 12.9 10.8 14
25.3 2.0 3.9 71 96.1 6.7 5.4 14
24.1 1.6 2.6 1,518 97.8 7.6 5.8 241
33.9 0.5 0.6 18 93.0 9.7 7.4 3
21.0 0.7 3.5 15 97.1 9.3 6.5 2
18.2 0.6 1.9 109 91.0 6.0 4.6 20
17.4 0.5 1.2 24 97.9 11.9 7.2 4
25.6 2.7 4.6 5,841 95.5 8.1 6.5 882
25.6 2.0 3.0 941 97.9 7.0 5.3 138
19.9 1.9 2.9 383 94.6 6.5 4.8 58
25.5 2.5 4.2 7,165 95.8 7.9 6.2 1,079
Mean for all children 24.9 4.2 5.8 96.4 NA NA NA NA
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NA = Not applicable
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2 Either exclusively breastfed or received breast milk and plain water, water-based liquids, and/or juice.
3 Based on children whether living or dead at the time of interview
Excludes children who do not have a valid answer on number of times breastfed
144 * Infant Feeding and Childhood and Maternal Nutrition