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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. The women existed but the mother never. A mother is absolutely new. The transformation indeed the fruit of physical, social and psychological changes that occur in the women that makes her the most wonderful person in the world- the mother.1 Breast feeding is the best natural feeding for infant survival and maternal health. This study sough to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding exclusive breast feeding among antenatal mothers .Total 30 antenatal mothers were selected and a pre experimental approach and one group pretest post test design was used.For data analysis descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Result shows that the mean poet test knowledge score (12.7) was higher than the mean pre test knowledge score (6.3).Chi square revealed significant association between pre-test knowledge score with selected socio- demographic variables at level 0.05 significance such as education, occupation, monthly income, any living child. To conclude there is very much lack of knowledge regarding exclusive breast feeding among ante natal mothers, so that there is a need to strengthen lactational education to promote exclusive breast feeding.