Evaluation of the Relationship between the Kind of Delivery and Succeeding in Breast-Feeding
Breast feeding is very effective on infants’ good health both mentally and physically. It prevents children from dying of malnutrition , respiratory infection and diarrhea which are the main causes of death among them. Up to now , little attention has been paid to the relation between breas...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Hamadan University of Medical Sciences
2002-06-01
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| Series: | پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا |
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| Online Access: | http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-757-en.html |
| Summary: | Breast feeding is very effective on infants’ good health both mentally and
physically. It prevents children from dying of malnutrition , respiratory infection
and diarrhea which are the main causes of death among them. Up to now ,
little attention has been paid to the relation between breast-feeding and the
type of delivery. Regarding the increasing number of cesarean childbirth , the
relation deserves special attention. So the aim of this research is to study it
statistically.
The present study is descriptive-analytic . First , 400 mothers out of those
who did not have relative or absolute prohibition of breast-feeding and whose
infants were 4 months old or even older and had no difficulty in their sucking
reflection with explained or unexplained causes were randomly chosen from 10
health care centers out of 28 in Hamadan. (200 mothers with natural childbirth –
200 with cesarean childbirth). The data including age , parity , education ,
receiving appropriate instruction in breast-feeding , occupation , type of
delivery and breast-feeding success were collected using the patients’ files or
through interview.
The two groups had no significant difference in their ages, parity and
education. Appropriate instruction of the group with natural childbirth was
95% and in caesarian group was 85%. Breast feeding success among mothers
with natural child birth was 81% (163 persons) and in comparison with (64% 129
persons) cesarean group was quite significant. Moreover, the breast-feeding
failure among mothers who had natural childbirth (11.5%, 23 persons) had been
mainly occurred after exclusively breast-feeding for 3-4 months while the
majority of mothers with cesarean delivery (75%, 50 persons) had failed to
breast-feed their infants exclusively in less than 2 months.
Natural childbirth and instruction of mothers had considerable effect on
breast-feeding success for four or more months. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-722X 2588-7238 |