The Factors Influencing Breastfeeding Among Mothers in Malaysia

Background Research breastfeeding alone is defined as the time to procure direct replacement of milk powder from a woman's breast, or direct breastfeeding to a newborn baby, or so-called breastfeeding term. Breastfeeding is important as it can be explained as the first contact from a mother to a newborn baby and it is important that some mothers think that breastfeeding can spend more time with the baby. According to the American mother of the American Academy of Pediatrics, we recommend breastfeeding for 6 months in the article "Breastfeeding and human breasts" published on February 27, 2012 online. Newborn baby

One of the main factors affecting mother's decision to continue breastfeeding was the simplicity of postpartum hospitalization. Previous studies indicate that many mothers were discharged before breastfeeding (Morrow et al., 1999). Therefore, the simplicity of postpartum hospitalization will directly affect the continuation of breastfeeding. Based on this consideration, mothers need more specialized, direct and consistent breastfeeding support. Therefore, in order to support continuous breastfeeding, nurses / midwives play a role in ensuring breastfeeding between mothers and children during hospitalization.

The purpose of educating mothers is not only to improve the knowledge and skills of breastfeeding but also to affect attitudes towards breastfeeding. Breastfeeding education occurs most frequently in prenatal and postnatal periods and should be taught by breastfeeding management expertise or trained persons. This directive usually occurs in an informal structure group setting, but it can be specified one to one. This type of education mainly includes information and resources. The subject audience is usually a pregnant or lactating woman, but it includes other people who support her father and breast-fed mothers.

Early skin contact may not affect the initial breastfeeding period and breastfeeding period for different reasons. There are many factors that affect breastfeeding. For example, for working mothers, they are experiencing healthcare provider support and breastfeeding education, and they experience very strange first breastfeeding while in contact with the baby's skin. However, when the mother and the newborn came home, they were doing a series of unexpected things, there was no assistance from health care providers, there were short birth vacation and intense work as well. Period In addition, if skin contact intervention is performed in clinical practice, it will change the convention and role that has been established for many years, in the face of difficulties faced by clinicians who do not like change.