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Breastfeeding is considered as the most effective way to maintain a child health and survival.(1) Breast milk contains all nutrients that baby need for growth. The benefits of breastfeeding including, enhancement of child immune system an protection from different diseases. Many countries around the world had developed several programs that target women to encourage breastfeeding and to promote their knowledge about the role of breastfeeding in improving child health and protecting mothers from breast cancer. Exclusive breastfeeding for first 6 months of life is recommended worldwide. Oman is one of the countries that implemented a breastfeeding policy. This policy states "child should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life with the introduction of complimentary foods and continued breastfeeding until 2 years of age". Unfortunately, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding at first six month of age in Oman decreased to 9% in 2012 according to ministry of health statistics. This decline is associated with different issues and could be explained by several factors. This essay discussed some of these factors. These are, Women's Employment, Pregnancy, Baby food company advertisement, Educational level, Mothers health status, Lack of support and Urbanization. Unfortunately, there is a lack of local studies about this topic (causes of declining breastfeeding prevalence in Oman) , because of that same of the factors that discussed in this essay had been retrieved from foreign studies that done in other countries around the world. However, almost these causes are a applicable also in Oman. ...

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...start crying while mothers waiting for meeting doctor, mother will not be able to stop her child by breastfeeding due to religious and cultural reasons, and probably she will give him a bottle milk. So lack of social support can also result in reduce breastfeeding in Oman.

Urbanization:
According to the United Nations Population the percentage of urbanization in sultanate of Oman was 84% in 2009.(7) And in 2011 the urban population was 73.4% of total population.(8) Some resources suggest that when women move from rural regions to urban one the chance to breastfeed their child decrease , since traditional practices could be replaced by modern ones or may be influenced by urbanization. Actually, this factor is association between this point and women's employment. Urban women is more likely to have a work and then their time will be divided between child and work .

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