Study of the Reasons for Formula-Milk Usage in Mothers of Singleton and Multiple Babies under the Coverage of the Formula-Milk Center of Lenjan, Iran

The mother’s milk is an important base for having a healthy baby, during the baby's first year of life. Therefore, it is necessary to study the reasons for feeding babies with formula-milk and depriving them of the mother's milk.

This is a descriptive analysis study, in which data was collected from 144 mothers referring to the Formula-Milk Center in Lenjan, Iran. An educated expert collected the data through studying the family documents during 2 months and a structural interview with the mothers. The data were analyzed by SPSS software.

The most important reason for starting to use formula-milk in singleton and multiple babies were, not taking the breast 39.8%, twins and triplets 89.13%. 54.08% of singleton bearing mothers gave to one reason and 71.7% of multiple bearing mothers gave more than one reason for starting to use formula-milk, which was statistically significant at p.v = 0.004. 58.33% of singleton bearing mothers fed their babies with their own milk for the first two hours after birth and 62.37% of multiple bearing mothers fed their babies for longer than two hours after birth, which was statistically significant at p.v = 0.004. Cesarean in multiple bearing mothers was 97.83% and in singleton bearing mothers 74.49%, which was statistically significant at p.v = 0.001. 25.26% of multiple babies were premature, but 11.34% of singleton babies were premature, this is statistically significant at p.v = 0.012.

Considering that in this research, a high percentage of difficulties were observed in multiple bearing mothers, special attention must be paid to the training of all mothers and especially multiple bearing mothers.