Breastfeeding Barrier

The majority of mothers want to breastfeed when their baby is born. There are many things that happen that interrupt or interfere with this plan. Here are just some of the obstacles that women face when trying to breastfeed.

Proceedings of birth - routine separation of the child's mother, breastfeeding drug intake and vigorous routine delay mode of delivery, all interfere with breastfeeding. A "significant" number of hospital procedures and facilities and the policies that are not based on evidence and are known to interfere with breastfeeding .

Nursery Policies - increases the separation, rooming-in policies, routine, bottles and pacifiers can also help prevent the child learns to stop and to create a supply. About a quarter of all breast-fed infants receive supplemental formula in the first two days of life.

Ignorance

Staff - breastfeeding is the biological norm, but without looking at the other nurse their children, is a lost art, too. Classes, books and personal counseling (professional or lay), can be useful.

Partnership - Partners are also lacking in knowledge of basic nursing care and are generally uncertain of their role in breastfeeding.

Professional - Doctors and nurses have little training in lactation and breastfeeding support. A key step in the Surgeon General's Call to Action for Breastfeeding is to help educate professionals on topics of breastfeeding and lactation.

The labor force - the return to work is the most common reason cited stopped breastfeeding. Maternity leave in the United States vary greatly in spite of Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which offers mothers more work up to 12 weeks. Many mothers have to take unpaid time off work and most of the FMLA does not use the entire twelve weeks. Fathers can also be used to FLMA the birth or adoption of a child. Maternity leave varies widely state.

Bad Decision - The pain caused by poor infant positioning or tongue-tie in infants can cause great pain to the mother and therefore discourage breastfeeding. These problems are usually easy to fix (the change of position or cut short frenulum).

Women who have unwanted pregnancies are less likely to breastfeed their babies.