Breastfeeding and diversification attitudes among Romanian mothers

Abstract

Introduction: Recommended by the World Health Organization as the optimal way of infant feeding, maternal breast milk represents the best nourishment for the newborn baby during its first six months. The purpose of this study was to evaluate some of the Romanian mothers’ characteristics that can influence their attitude towards breastfeeding and food diversification. Methods: A questionnaire about 32 questions, including demographics items and breastfeeding attitudes, was sent online (socializing platforms) in 2020 to mothers from all Romania districts. Our sample included at the end 1768 subjects, who fully completed the questionnaire. Statistical analysis was carried out using the GraphPad statistical software. Results: The prevalence of breastfeeding for more than six months was only 32.18% in our group, and most of them were educated mothers who lives in urban areas (OR=2.76), were married (OR=1.98), had over 30 years old (OR=1.43) and have more than one child (OR=1.74). Conclusions: We underline the importance of tackling in our future community interventions some of the socio-demographic characteristics of pregnant women (like groups education, good and accessible information about breastfeeding, young age, first pregnancy, or mothers from rural areas as well) in developing good habits of breastfeeding or complementary feeding, in order to improve their children health status and proper development.

Breastfeeding in the First Year of Life: The Situation in Romania in the European Context

“…Most studies (55.56%) showed improvements in breastfeeding outcomes after the mother received support in breastfeeding [37,40,50,53]. Table 6 illustrates the characteristics of the women included in this review.…”

Orthodox justification of collective violence: An epistemological and systematic framework

“…The Orthodox Church does not have a just war theory because of a comprehensive theological opposition to collective violence and canonical ambivalence, because of church-state legislative jurisdiction which left the matter of internal policing and external defence in the hands of the state, and because of externalities, such as ambivalent mimetic rivalry with jihad, Eurasian cultural dualism, nationalism, patriotism, the self-feminisation of the Orthodox Church and so on (Simion 2008(Simion , 2015. In spite of Orthodox Christianity's demographic profile, the subject of just war theory remains an internal theological aloofness for reasons hard to explain.…”

“…Nevertheless, as the topic of just war in Orthodox Christianity along with its intricacies remains a subject of growing interest outside the Orthodox Church -while also taking into account the ongoing war between two Orthodox Christian countries, Russia and Ukraine -one may follow the work of Mantzaridis (2012:117-127) and Simion (2008Simion ( , 2015. For work indirectly related to the subject such as the subject of 'just peacemaking', at this point in time, one can follow scholars such as Alexei Bodrov, Tamara Grdzelidze, Harutyun Harutyunyan, Philip LeMasters and others, who in the context of two thematic consultations held in Romania and Syria, have engaged subjects such as blessing weapons during war, Orthodox canonical tradition, nationalism, globalisation, victimisation, cultural perceptions of good and evil and so on (Asfaw, Chehadeh & Simion 2012).…”