Prelacteal feeding is not associated with infant size at 3 months in rural Bangladesh: a prospective cohort study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe protocol for the mCARE-II trial was reviewed and approved by institutional review board at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and Bangladesh Medical Research Council, Dhaka, Bangladesh (IRB No. 00006469, approved on August 27, 2015). The protocol for the JiVitA-6 trial was reviewed and approved by the institutional review board at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (IRB No. 00008000, approved on July 11, 2018) and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (#PR-17119, approved on 21 April 2018). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Compete interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1163259), Johnson & Johnson, and the UBS Optimus Foundation."

"Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03683667 and NCT02909179."