Abstract
The article presents results related to breastfeeding and the first complementary foods of 823 healthy children aged 6-35 months from the Czech multicentre study. In this sample 51.4% infants aged 6-11 months were breastfed.
Thirty eight percent of children were breastfed for 12 months or longer, 7.4% for 24 months or longer. Maternal age and education and family income were significantly associated with the duration of breastfeeding.
Complementary food was introduced exactly at 6 completed 6 months to 23% of children, earlier to 49% and later to 28% of children. Almost all infants consumed all 5 main food groups, but the inter-individual variations were large and foods variety low.
The study provides a basis for the strengthening of nutritional counselling for young child feeding.