Initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth and its determinants among normal vaginal deliveries at primary and secondary health facilities in Bangladesh: A case-observation study

• Farhana Karim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Farhana Karim, Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maternal and child health division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Sk. Masum Billah ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: billah@icddrb.org

  Affiliation Maternal and child health division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8690-6932

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• Mohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir Chowdhury,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maternal and child health division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Nabila Zaka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Section, Maternal and Newborn Health, UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Alexander Manu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Shams El Arifeen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maternal and child health division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Farhana Karim, Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maternal and child health division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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