Background: Breastfeeding is a woman practice that usually feeds an infant with milk produced from the mammary glands of the nipple. Who described breastfeeding as an unparalleled way of infant survival, healthy growth, and development? We also recommend that you start breastfeeding within 1 hour of giving birth to your first milk. It promotes breastfeeding of the first milk and is not recommended for breastfeeding before the child. First, milk is 3 times richer in vitamin A and 10 times richer in mature beta-carotene.

Objective: To assess the knowledge and practice of breastfeeding mothers of children under the age of 2 in Dilla Town, South Ethiopia, in 2020.

Method: Cross-sectional community-based studies were used. The survey was conducted in the town of Dilla community and a sample size of 362 was used to collect the data. We performed this study using a simple random systematic random sampling technique and collected data from respondents using a structured, pretested questionnaire and an interview-guided method of data collection by the principal investigator. The data was entered and analyzed by manual aggregation method and frequency distribution tables, and some variables were described using static graphs.