Attitudes of breast-feeding mothers: a survey of 649 mothers.
A consecutive sample of 1525 mothers were interviewed in hospital after delivery and breast-feeders were interviewed again 12 months later at home. This paper examines the attitudes of mothers to their breast-feeding experience in terms of their enjoyment, satisfaction, embarrassment, how they would choose to feed their next baby should they have one and whether they would encourage their friends to breast-feed. Mothers' attitudes to breast-feeding were strongly associated with the number of children they had, how definite they had been during pregnancy about wanting to breast-feed, the problems they encountered whilst establishing breast-feeding and how embarrassing they found breast-feeding. The length of time mothers breast-fed was also closely associated with the views they expressed concerned breast-feeding.
D001290:Attitude; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D010298:Parity; D010549:Personal Satisfaction