Table 2

Foods and fluids that mothers (%) would give their babies in different circumstances, by region.
Foods and fluids
 At birth
 Diarrhoea
 Thirst
 Colic
 Fever


FVG
 BAS
 FVG
 BAS
 FVG
 BAS
 FVG
 BAS
 FVG
 BAS
Breast milk
 99
 100
 94*
 77*
 98
 93
 91*
 77*
 97
 93
Infant formula
 55*
 41*
 50*
 26*
 58*
 38*
 52*
 27*
 56*
 38*
Cow milk
 6
 4
 4
 4
 9
 4
 4
 2
 9
 4
Water
 24*
 42*
 39*
 58*
 73
 78
 30
 41
 57*
 74*
Camomile
 19*
 32*
 32
 26
 49
 53
 45*
 73*
 43
 50
Fruit juice
 0
 0
 1
 1
 16*
 33*
 0
 2
 8*
 19*
Rice water
 1
 3
 8*
 36*
 2*
 8*
 1*
 15*
 3
 7
Vegetable soup
 0
 0
 7
 11
 18
 18
 8
 10
 15*
 28*
Cereal porridge
 0
 0
 2*
 15*
 8*
 16*
 4*
 13*
 8*
 21*
Homogenised baby foods
 0
 0
 7
 10
 14
 9
 6
 8
 13
 18

* p < 0.05

Quintero Romero et al. International Breastfeeding Journal 2006 1:14   doi:10.1186/1746-4358-1-14