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How Breastfeeding Behavior Is Affected By The Breastfeeding Perspectives Of Fathers In Georgia (Usa), Les'shon Irby, Emily Graybill, Cassandra White
How Breastfeeding Behavior Is Affected By The Breastfeeding Perspectives Of Fathers In Georgia (Usa), Les'shon Irby, Emily Graybill, Cassandra White
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association
Background: Father support has recently been associated with increasing breastfeeding rates, but research is limited on how the American father’s perspectives of breastfeeding influence breastfeeding behavior. The aim of the study was to investigate the perspectives of fathers residing in Georgia on breastfeeding and to understand if it contributed to mothers’ decisions to breastfeed.
Methods: We conducted 10 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with parents of ever-breastfeed infants who were at least six months of age.
Results: Mothers often led the decision-making process to breastfeed based on her prepartum knowledge of breastfeeding. Many fathers had no prepartum opinion on breastfeeding, and their …