A new study published in Public Health Nutrition investigated whether maternal/caregivers age, infant age (0-6 months) and discarding colostrum affects timely initiation of breast-feeding (TIBF) and exclusive breast-feeding (EBF). This study entailed a systematic search of PubMed, SCOPUS, EMBASE, CINHAL, Web of Science, and WHO Global Health Library electronic databases for all articles published from 2000 to January 2018, for observational studies conducted in Ethiopia. Here, two reviewers independently screened, extracted, and graded the quality of studies using Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Participants were mothers of children under 2 years; overall, 40 articles (fourteen studies on TIBF and twenty-six on EBF) were included. The results indicated that TIBF was associated with colostrum discarding, but not with maternal/caregivers age. In addition, colostrum discarding and infant age were significantly associated with EBF, but not with maternal/caregivers age. Hence, no association was found between maternal/caregivers age and breast-feeding practice (EBF and TIBF). Colostrum discarding was associated with both EBF and TIBF. It was stated that this evidence could be helpful to counsel all mothers of reproductive age and who discard colostrum.