Infants, whose mothers chose formula inappropriately viz.
not fulfilling the AFASS criteria, had an increased risk of
vertical transmission of HIV and death (hazard ratio 3.63,
95% CI 1.48–8.89).
There were no significant differences between the formula feeding and breastfeeding mothers at 14 weeks or
6 months post delivery for any of the anthropometric or
body composition measures. As expected there was a drop
in weight and BMI during the first 6 months of breastfeeding however the drop (0.43 kg) was not more than
expected [38] and in fact was less than that experienced by
the formula feeding mothers (1.14 kg). We found that even
when examining loss of LBM over the nine-month period