Objective: The objective of this research was determine the relationship that exists between psychomotor development and nutritional status in children from 6 to 24 months of the Ally Micuy Project, of ADRA in Huari, Ancash, 2009. Methodology: The methodology correspond to a not experimental desing, descriptive correlation type,transverse cut. The studied population were conformed for 170 children from 6 to 24 months of the Huari district,from these were select to 80 children by sampling simple random stratified probability. The instruments used forgathering data were: The Assessment Scale of Psychomotor Development (EEDP), Results: The Anthropometricevaluation Sheet and a survey. The data analysis for the nutritional diagnosis was with the software “WHO Anthro2007”, for the hypothesis test, the statistical analysis of nonparametric type, Chi square Χ2. Results: The resultsshow that...

Purpose: To determine mothers’ attitude and knowledge level of newly born babies from the Neonatology Serviceabout exclusive maternal breastfeeding at the “Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen” General Hospital in Lima, 2009.Methodology: The present research was descriptive, cross-sectional study; the sample was formed from 90 mothers,selected by simple probability random sampling of a population of 220 mothers. The employed instrument wasa questionnaire: knowledge and attitude level with the Likert Scale. For information processing and analysis theStatistical SPSS version16 program was used. Results: The 97.8% of mothers consider that exclusive maternalbreastfeeding is the only food for babies in their first six months, 43% are aware of the benefits that exclusivematernal breastfeeding can provide for both mother and child; 93.3% know the right technique for breastfeeding;70% of mothers co...