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to assess fathers’ and grandmothers’ knowledge of breast feeding and their ability to support successful breast feeding. To design a suitable intervention for fathers and grandmothers to support breast-feeding mothers, to assess the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention and monitor its likely effects on breast-feeding rates.qualitative focus groups and interviews. Evaluation of the feasibility...
to examine the effect of early skin-to-skin contact between mothers and their healthy full-term babies on initiation and duration of breast feeding.a randomised controlled trial comparing skin-to-skin with routine care.Warrington Hospital, Cheshire, UK.204 mother and baby pairs; 102 randomised to each group.success of first breast feed, maternal satisfaction with skin-to-skin care and preference for...
to explore the nature of interactions between midwives and breast-feeding women within postnatal wards.a critical ethnographic study using participant observation and focused interviews.two maternity units in Northern England, UK.61 postnatal women and 39 midwives.the interactions between midwives and women were encompassed by the global theme of ‘taking time and touching base’. However, most encounters...
to systematically analyse the Nepalise grandmother's own perspective of breast feeding.a qualitative approach was used. Three focus-group discussions and eight semi-structured interviews formed the primary database. All interviews and discussions were tape recorded, and translated transcripts and field notes were analysed.Makwanpur District, rural Nepal.31 Tamang mothers-in-law living in a household...
to gain an understanding of the experiences of women who have had an episode of inflammatory symptoms of the breast during lactation.a grounded theory approach, inspired by Glaser and Strauss, was used in an interview study.the study was carried out at a midwife-led breast-feeding clinic in Sweden.the strategic sample consisted of 14 mothers, all of whom had had an episode of breast inflammation between...
to determine whether postnatal ‘hands off’ care by midwives on positioning and attachment of the newborn baby improves breast-feeding duration.mothers were randomised at the first postnatal feed to receive either care by a midwife trained in the experimental protocol or by a control midwife undertaking routine care.eight wards in four English Midlands hospitals.370 primiparous mothers with term babies...
to discover the views of midwives in relation to baby feeding.qualitative using grounded theory. Data collection used in-depth interviews with 30 midwives who volunteered to participate. Field notes of the interaction between the researcher and participant were also recorded as data. The constant comparison process was used to generate codes and subsequent conceptualisations from the data.two maternity...
to explore the relationships between maternal distress, breast feeding cessation, breast feeding problems and breast feeding maternal role attainment.longitudinal cohort study.three urban hospitals within Sydney, Australia.449 women were invited to participate in the study, with an 81% response rate.self-report questionnaires were used to collect the data in pregnancy (28–36 weeks) and 2 weeks and...
to further compare acupuncture treatment and care interventions for the relief of inflammatory symptoms of the breast during lactation and to investigate the relationship between bacteria in the breast milk and clinical signs and symptoms.randomised, non-blinded, controlled trial of acupuncture and care interventions.a midwife-led breast feeding clinic in Sweden.205 mothers with 210 cases of inflammatory...
To describe the breast feeding experiences of mothers in New Zealand.Descriptive, qualitative study. After a previous quantitative analysis of a questionnaire, the open-ended responses by the women were examined using a thematic analysis approach.Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.153 primiparous and multiparous breast feeding women aged between 20 and 49 years, who had had a caesarean section or vaginal birth...
the Assessment Tool for Lingual Frenulum Function (ATLFF) is the only available tool designed to assess newborn babies for the severity of tongue-tie. The aim of this study was to describe the ATLFF scores obtained on a series of 148 tongue-tied newborn babies.prospective case series.a 420-bed community hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.newborn babies admitted to the normal newborn nursery from...
to explore the pattern and experiences of breast-feeding practices among diabetic women.retrospective cohort study using maternal records and postal questionnaires in a Baby-Friendly hospital.diabetic mothers including women with gestational diabetes, and type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus.from the total group of respondents, 81.9% intended to breast feed. The actual breast feeding rates were 81.9% at...
to explore pregnant women's perceptions and personal experiences of the influence of formal and informal social support on breast-feeding decision-making, in relation to breast-feeding initiation and duration.qualitative focus groups and interviews.four primary-care centres in Valencia, Spain.19 primiparous women in their first trimester of pregnancy participated in focus groups and 12 primiparous...
to analyse the opinions of men and women on the father's participation in breast feeding.a qualitative and exploratory study, using the content analysis method, on its thematic modality. Data were collected at discussion groups that answered the following questions: which meanings and feelings are related to father's involvement in breast feeding? Which factors help or obstruct the act of breast feeding?...
to explore fathers’ experiences of the breast feeding of their very-low-birthweight preterm babies from birth to 12 months of age.a qualitative study using interpretive phenomenology. Data were collected via longitudinal in-depth individual interviews.publicly funded tertiary level hospital, Australia.a purposive sample of 17 Australian parents took part in the broader study. This paper reports on...
to learn what primiparous mothers in Lusaka, Zambia know about human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV, and breast feeding.qualitative interviews analysed by thematic manifest content analysis.postnatal wards at Lusaka University Teaching Hospital.14 primiparous mothers were interviewed.1 year after implementation of the...
to determine breast-feeding knowledge and practices among mothers before and after an educational intervention on breast feeding.cross-sectional, descriptive study using a face-to-face questionnaire.Manisa Maternity and Children's Hospital, which has Baby Friendly status.158 women in the early postpartum period.10.8% of women were not aware that they should offer colostrum to their babies. Only 43...
this study reviewed breast-feeding rates in Malta for the first six months of life and identified reasons why mothers discontinue breast feeding in this small island state.a random sample of 405 new mothers who chose to breast feed in the only major state hospital were contacted by phone one week postnatally and again each month up to six months, and presented with a questionnaire relating to their...
to evaluate the effects of an extended midwifery support (EMS) programme on the proportion of women who breast feed fully to six months.randomised controlled trial.large public teaching hospital in Australia.849 women who had given birth to a healthy, term, singleton baby and who wished to breast feed.participants were allocated at random to EMS, in which they were offered a one-to-one postnatal educational...
to explore women's views and experiences of breast feeding, regardless of whether or not they breast fed, or length of breast feeding.data from a randomised controlled trial (where neither of two education interventions increased breast-feeding initiation or duration compared with standard care; ISRCTN21556494) were pooled and analysed as a cohort. This paper presents the analysis of two questions...
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