ABSTRACT

Nutrition is crucial for maintaining maternal health during pregnancy and lactation. Mother should eat a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, and whole grains to fulfill the nutrients requirements, as well as should take a daily vitamin and mineral supplement to ensure best iron and folic acid intake. The needs of nutrition to lactating women are not fulfilled because of various reasons and to overcome this the government of India launched many schemes for nutritional interventions for lactating women. National Family Health Service surveys about maternal nutrition shows lactating women with low basic metabolic index and are anemic because of not utilizing available and recommended nutrition interventions. Various studies about implementations of interventions and its impact state many barriers in utilizing these interventions. The barriers are like accessibility and availability of food, feeding practice and knowledge, nutrition value and agricultural production, poor sanitation, cultural and religious influence and poor health services. The less utilization of nutrition intervention services by lactating mothers because of socio-cultural and health service related barriers requires specific interventions at administrative and community levels to improve the nutritional status of lactating mothers in the rural India. Keywords: Barriers, Breast Feeding, Lactating Women, Nutrition Interventions, Rural India
Publication date: 01/08/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.8.6273