In this research, which aims to determine the knowledge, attitudes and applications of the women who has children aged from 0 to 24 mounts in Elazığ, about the breast milk and the nutrition of their babies 896 participators are randomly selected and 869 of these participators (respond rate is 97%) are reached. According to the findings gathered in the above mentioned research, a large group a these women (48.7%) indicated that they did not suckle their babies within the first hour after the birth, and also 7.8% said that they didn't give the colostrum to their babies. Among the reasons of not giving colostrum, the reason such as considering colostrum as filthy and harmful to the baby (26.5%), the refusal of the baby to suckle the colostrum (16.2%), the will of the head of the family (13.2%), to wait for call to prayer from the mosque (13.2%) occupy the first ranks. 30.8% of the women indicated that the baby was feeded with some other nutriments before it is allowed to suckle breast milk after the birth, 25.4% stated that they gave water sweeteened with sugar. 56.4% of the women stated that they are still continuing to suckle their babies, and 6% stated that they stopped to suckle their babies when they were one to three months age. The medium time for to be nourised with breast milk is 10.4 months. As the conclusion;. although the nourishing with breast milk seems to be enough in Elazığ province, the low rate of nourishing with breast milk and without any other nutriment in the first 4-6 months, and the shortening of the suckling period as a cause of the early start of nourishing with additional nutriment are significant problems. We need to supply services and training to people with cooperation of the society directed to the solution of these problems.