Breast feeding and the mother-infant relationship.
The paper discusses the connections between the mother-infant relationship and infant feeding. While there is little evidence that the relationship is determined by the method of feeding employed, there are factors that limit the mother-child relationship and which make the establishment of lactation difficult and its maintenance more uncertain. Some problems of breast feeding in contemporary industrialised society are described.
D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007774:Lactation; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D012923:Social Class