Maternal Satisfaction Through Breastfeeding: An empirical study

Abstract

A growing body of research indicates that both mothers and children benefit from breastfeeding. Reflecting such research, public health officials and organizations promote the practice of breastfeeding. Despite such research, advocacy, and gradually increasing breastfeeding rates over the past decade, a large fraction of mothers do not breastfeed for a shorter period than the recommended six months. We have identified maternal satisfaction (MS) as a predictor variable and six criterion variables namely maternal knowledge (MK), a socio-cultural attitude of mothers (SCI), mother-baby bonding (MBB), family tradition (FT), concerns for health and figure (CHF), and government initiatives (GI). Primary data were collected from hospitals, tabulated and processed to draw the inferences and relationships among the variables. Results show that there is weak maternal knowledge among the mothers, especially for the first baby delivery. Moreover, there are many concerns like family traditions, social and cultural attitudes, mothers concerns on health and physical figure, government initiatives with maternal satisfaction in our study.

Keywords: Maternal satisfaction, breastfeeding

DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/95-08

Publication date: November 30^th 2021