Infant feeding style in Urban Kenya

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Abstract
The concept of infant feeding style is developed as a self‐consistent way of making choices about infant feeding and applied to a study of infant feeding practices of low income women in Nairobi, Kenya. Personal and shared styles, interaction style and eating style are examined using both cross sectional survey data and results of ethnographic fieldwork. The dynamics of status and change are discussed using the concept of feeding “in style.” Mothers' different interpretations of breastfeeding, cow's milk and infant formula are reflected in the statistical analysis of their feeding patterns. The emphasis on breastfeeding as a process, cow's milk as a food, and infant formula as a superfood, explains the infant feeding patterns observed and points to the importance of the concept of infant feeding style for developing culturally appropriate infant feeding policy.

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