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Evidence from Ethiopia indicates that breastfeeding women are vulnerable to poor dietary intake due to socioeconomic constraints, limited nutrition knowledge, and cultural food practices. This study aimed to assess maternal nutritional practices and associated factors among breastfeeding mothers in Jimma Town, Southwest Ethiopia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A community\u2010based cross\u2010sectional study was conducted from December 2023 to June 2024 among breastfeeding mothers. Data were collected through face\u2010to\u2010face interviews using a structured questionnaire, including socio\u2010demographic characteristics, household economic status, dietary practices, nutrition counseling, and minimum dietary diversity for women (MDD\u2010W). Binary logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with good maternal nutritional practice. Adjusted odds ratios (AORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were reported, and statistical significance was declared at\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Good maternal nutritional practice was associated with higher maternal education (secondary: AOR\u2009=\u20095.4, 95% CI: 1.69\u201317.56; college and above: AOR\u2009=\u200911.4, 95% CI: 3.13\u201341.73), being married (AOR\u2009=\u20091.92, 95% CI: 1.14\u20133.25), maternal age 26\u201335 years (AOR\u2009=\u20093.2, 95% CI: 1.29\u20137.95), higher household income (\u2009&gt;\u20096000 ETB; AOR\u2009=\u20093.58, 95% CI: 1.65\u20137.76), and husbands employed in private business (AOR\u2009=\u20092.21, 95% CI: 1.10\u20134.35). Positive dietary behaviors including consuming \u2265\u20093 meals per day (AOR\u2009=\u20091.99, 95% CI: 1.33\u20132.97), dietary diversity \u2265\u20095 food groups (AOR\u2009=\u20091.97, 95% CI: 1.16\u20133.35), absence of food taboos (AOR\u2009=\u20091.77, 95% CI: 1.11\u20132.80), and consuming additional meals during lactation (AOR\u2009=\u20090.48, 95% CI: 0.28\u20130.87) were also associated with better nutritional practices. Conversely, large family size (\u2009\u2265\u20094 members), lack of nutrition counseling, and daily labor occupation were negatively associated.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study identified several key determinants of nutritional practices among breastfeeding mothers, including educational level, maternal occupation, maternal age, marital status, household monthly income, family size, husband's occupation, average meal frequency per day, changes in food intake during lactation, food taboos, dietary diversity score, and receipt of nutrition counseling. Strengthening nutrition education and counseling, improving household economic empowerment, and addressing cultural food taboos are essential to improve maternal dietary practices during lactation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/hsr2.72532","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,19]],"date-time":"2026-05-19T04:10:14Z","timestamp":1779163814000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Maternal Nutritional Practices and Associated Factors Among Breastfeeding Mothers in Jimma Town, Ethiopia: A Community\u2010Based Cross\u2010Sectional Study"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-0180-9669","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Buzuneh Tasfa","family":"Marine","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health Jimma University Jimma Ethiopia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-5558-7133","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yematawork Alemu","family":"Haile","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health Jimma University Jimma Ethiopia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mihiret Genene","family":"Zewde","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Science Hawassa University Hawassa Ethiopia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_13_2_1","article-title":"A Strategy for Large\u2010Scale Action","author":"The World, Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development","year":"2006","journal-title":"The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_3_1","first-page":"320","article-title":"Determinants of Health and Nutritional Status of Rural Nigerian Women","volume":"19","author":"Ene\u2010Obong H. 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