Maternal practice and attitudes toward breastfeeding.
An age-graded sample of 411 New York City mothers is assessed to evaluate the direction and amount of change in incidence of breastfeeding. Social and demographic factors are considered and are found to have little trend effect. This limited sample fails to indicate any increase in breastfeeding in the 1970s, as compared to earlier decades. However, maternal attitudes are more positive toward breastfeeding than toward bottlefeeding; and some ethnic, economic, and sociocultural factors do affect decision to breastfeed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors