Assess the attitude and awareness towards breastfeeding among adolescents in suttur village

Breast feeding is a natural source of food for the baby’s those who are below two years of age. It is economically friendly, ready to use safely, develop immunity and also helps to develop bonding between the mother and child and also through breast feeding can be prevented malnourishment, infection, and also reduces infant mortality rate. According to WHO guidelines the first six months for the baby must be provide exclusive breast feeding it will benefit the infant for nutritional and immunological development therefore soon after the delivery we should encouraged the mother to feed the baby but still in our country there is a stigma that should not give the first breast milk to the baby so this will affect the immunity, growth and development of the infant.The objective of the study to assess the attitude and knowledge among the young people resides around the suttur village, Mysore. The methods was used a descriptive study designs was adopted and random sampling technique was used to select the sample to find the awareness of the breastfeeding and can remove this stigma and discrimination.Among120 samples 26.6% were male and 73.4% were female, their majority age around 20 to 24 years, 99.16% people were not agreed with Breast milk and bottled milk is the same, 85% were agreed with Breast milk provides all the nutrients to baby, 73% were disagreed breastfeeding woman cannot return to work, 99.16% were disagreed with Breast milk and bottled milk are the same. The result suggests that still stigma was present There are no significant difference in the attitude scores of with misconception and gaps. There is a need for multi educational programme improving the awareness and knowledge of breast feeding. This study helps to find the whether awareness of the breastfeed exclusively to age 6 months and intention to meet this recommendation of WHO breastfeeding practices