Indigenous first feeding practices in newborn babies

Midwifery

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-100

  Lefèber, Yvonne ^b   Voorhoeve, Henk ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; BABY FOOD; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD CARE; COLOSTRUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; REVIEW; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; BREAST FEEDING; COLOSTRUM; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; MIDWIFERY;

EID: 0033138541     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-6138(99)90005-0     Document Type: Article

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