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    The Association Between Women’s Perceptions of Professional Support and Problems Experienced on Breastfeeding Cessation: A Western Australian Study

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    Authors
    Hauck, Yvonne
    Fenwick, J.
    Dhaliwal, Satvinder
    Butt, Janice
    Schmied, V.
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Hauck, Yvonne L. and Fenwick, Jennifer and Dhaliwal, Satvinder S. and Butt, Janice and Schmied, Virginia. 2011. The Association Between Women’s Perceptions of Professional Support and Problems Experienced on Breastfeeding Cessation: A Western Australian Study. Journal of Human Lactation. 27 (1): pp. 49-57.
    Source Title
    Journal of Human Lactation
    DOI
    10.1177/0890334410386956
    ISSN
    1552-5732
    School
    School of Nursing and Midwifery
    Remarks

    The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Journal of Human Lactation, 27/1, February/2011 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © Yvonne L. Hauck and Fenwick, Jennifer and Dhaliwal, Satvinder S. and Butt, Janice and Schmied, Virginia

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9581
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    A cross-sectional survey was used to determine the association among women’s breastfeeding problems, their perceptions of support from midwives and child health nurses, and breastfeeding cessation in the first 10 weeks postbirth in a sample of Western Australian women (N = 2669). Primiparous women (75.8%) experienced significantly more problems that multiparous women (52.6%). Although 78.8% of all women agreed or strongly agreed that staff were helpful with feeding, 53.4% confirmed that different midwives offered different feeding advice; however, receiving different advice from midwives around feeding was not associated with breastfeeding cessation. Differences in breastfeeding cessation were associated with parity. Primiparous women’s cessation was associated with experiencing any breastfeeding problems, unhelpful hospital midwives, and unhelpful information from child health nurses, whereas for multiparous women, this included 2 or more breastfeeding problems, not being able to choose when to feed, and unhelpful information from child health nurses.

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