ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2017
Empowering women to breastfeed: Does the Baby Friendly Initiative make a difference?
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- Guilt, shame, and postpartum infant feeding outcomes: A systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Pacifier use in preterm infants during orogastric tube feeding: a randomized trial.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2026Trial
- Is there room for mothers' agency in the choice to breastfeed? A qualitative analysis of mothers' views on messages promoting breastfeeding in Quebec.European journal of midwifery · 2024Article
- Educating Housekeeping Staff to Encourage a Culture Supportive of Breastfeeding.The Journal of perinatal education · 2023Article
- The relationship between women's breastfeeding empowerment and conformity to feminine norms.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of distance education program on mothers' empowerment in exclusive breastfeeding: A randomized clinical trial.Journal of education and health promotion · 2022Article
- Factors influencing breastfeeding practices in China: A meta-aggregation of qualitative studies.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Review
- The Beliefs About Breastfeeding Questionnaire (BAB-Q): A psychometric validation study.British journal of health psychology · 2021Article
- UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative: Providing, receiving and leading infant feeding care in a hospital maternity setting-A critical ethnography.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Hidden Realities of Infant Feeding: Systematic Review of Qualitative Findings from Parents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Empowering women to breastfeed: Does the Baby Friendly Initiative make a difference?Maternal & child nutrition · 2017Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFI) is currently presented worldwide as the gold standard model of care for promoting and supporting breastfeeding. However, there is a lack of understanding about the ways in which health services, including the BFI, address the cultural change from a disembodied practice (formula feeding) to an embodied one (breastfeeding) in contexts where formula feeding is the norm. We used a qualitative case study methodology to compare the embodied experience of breastfeeding and the maternal experience of breastfeeding promotion and support services between mothers receiving care from institutions with low and high levels of BFI implementation in Québec, Canada. A total of 11 focus groups were conducted with mothers from six institutions-three with high and three with low levels of BFI implementation. We found the flexible approach to breastfeeding duration, characteristic of BFI services in our study, helped to avoid maternal guilt and shame; the shift to focusing on potential barriers and strategies for overcoming them empowered women to negotiate changes in infant feeding with others and self by addressing the embodied experience of a practice that may not feel natural at the beginning. Findings have implications for the concept of habitus and the construction of the breastfeeding body; we suggest that habitus can change if agents are provided with discursive tools to negotiate this embodied change. Implications for BFI services include the need to implement the 10 steps in a flexible, family-centred way that focuses on empowering women rather than simply reaching outcomes.
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