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Abstract

This is a report of a hospital-based cross-sectional study based on interviewing of mothers with 0-5 months old children. The objectives are to determine the food characteristics in relation to the weight of O-5 months old children fed by breastfeeding alone, breastfeeding with formula, and formula alone. The result showed that mothers who have no need to work outside or rather low family income will give breastfeeding alone to their children more than mothers with rather high tamily income.  Even through a large number of the latter give breastfeeding, a large number of them also give supplementary food to their children before appropriate time. Most of the supplementary food is made up of rice, banana, packaged finished supplementary food, fruit juice, honey or sweetened condensed milk, egg, meat and in particularly water. These supplementary food become obstacles to the exclusive breastfeeding behavior. Regarding the children weight, it was found that those with breastfeeding alone does not show a statistically difference in weight from those with formula alone and both formula and breastfeeding. The study has proved that children with breastfeeding have no lesser weight than those with formula.