Exclusive Breastfeeding Practice and Its Associated Factors among Mothers of Infants Less Than Six Months of Age in Debre Tabor Town, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Breastfeeding practices of the respondents () in Debre Tabor town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2014.

Variables	Frequency	Percentage
Ever breastfed
Yes	452	99.8
No	1	0.2
Initiation time
Within 1 hour	356	78.6
After 1 hour	43	9.4
Do not remember	54	11.9
Colostrum discarded
Yes	12	2.7
No	441	97.3
Prelacteal feeding
Yes	116	25.6
No	337	74.4
Exclusive breastfeeding practice
Yes	321	70.8
No	132	29.2
Breastfeeding frequency per 24 hrs
≥8 hrs	280	61.8
<8	173	38.2
Time to give BF
On demand	194	42.8
When the baby cry	201	44.3
On schedule	41	9.0
Others	17	3.7

⁢: breastfeeding; : on convince, breast full.