Intervention plan The trial intervention has been selected because its feasibility has been tested in urban populations in Dhaka, and it is likely to be sustainable in the future. The proposed individual peer counseling education will be of sufficient intensity to alter infant and young child feeding practices and to improve the growth of the young children and prevent malnutrition. After one year of preparations for the trial, the interventions will be delivered to the women starting in pregnancy and until their child is one year of age over the second and third years of the study.