A Description of a Male-Focused Breastfeeding Promotion Corporate Lactation Program

Cohen, Rona; Lange, Linda; Slusser, Wendy

doi:10.1177/089033440201800111

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“…Moreover, a previous study indicated that mothers feel more capable and confident about breastfeeding when they perceive their partners are supportive by way of verbal encouragement and active involvement in breastfeeding activities. 28 A past study 29 recommended that employers should consider implementing breastfeeding support services not only for their female employees but also for their male employees. With more men participating in the care of their infants, men will also benefit from a healthier infant and miss less time from work due to their infants' illnesses.…”

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Influence of Partner Support on an Employed Mother's Intention to Breastfeed After Returning to Work

Tsai

2014

Breastfeeding Medicine

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Background: Despite the increasing number of large companies complying with the demands for a breastfeeding-friendly workplace, providing on-site lactation support, some mothers still find continuing to breastfeed a challenge. We postulated that greater support and encouragement from the partner would be independently predictive of whether the mother would take advantage of workplace milk expression breaks and lactation rooms and continue to breastfeed after returning to work. To evaluate this hypothesis, we conducted a survey at a female labor-intensive electronics manufacturer in Taiwan. Subjects and Methods: Six hundred eight working mothers in an electronics manufacturing plant in Tainan Science Park in Southern Taiwan who had access to dedicated lactation rooms at the workplace were interviewed. Questionnaire content included female employee demographics, employment characteristics, partnerrelated characteristics, and breastfeeding behavior after returning to work following the birth of their most recently born child. Results: The partner's initial support of the choice to breastfeed and encouragement to use the lactation room and milk expression breaks and the mother's perception of the partner's support for baby care were significant predictors of the intention to continue to breastfeed after returning to work, after adjusting for the employed mother's demographics and employment characteristics, supporting our hypothesis. Conclusions: These findings suggest that antenatal education or activities provided by the workplace should include the partner, which may improve workplace breastfeeding rates.

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Influence of Partner Support on an Employed Mother's Intention to Breastfeed After Returning to Work

Tsai

2014

Breastfeeding Medicine

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“…[16][17][18][19] Moreover, supporting the father during breastfeeding may help to improve the mother's satisfaction with breastfeeding, duration of breastfeeding, and adaptation of both parents to parenting. 10,[20][21][22][23] Despite these data, the fathers are poorly informed about the advantages of breastfeeding 24,25 and may have many concerns that are poorly addressed and that can negatively influence initiation and duration rates of breastfeeding. These concerns include diminished sexual relationship, feeling left out of feeding the infant, losing the attention of their mate, and feelings of inadequacy and jealousy.…”

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A Controlled Trial of the Father's Role in Breastfeeding Promotion

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ABSTRACT. Objective. To investigate whether supporting fathers to recognize the relevance of their role in the success of breastfeeding and teaching them how to prevent and to manage the most common lactation problems would result in more women breastfeeding.Methods. A controlled trial, in which the participating fathers were allocated in 2-month blocks to a child care training session, was conducted of 280 mothers considering breastfeeding and their 280 partners at a university obstetric department in Naples, Italy. Support and advice about breastfeeding was provided to all of the mothers. Among the fathers of the intervention group, the training session included the management of breastfeeding; among those of the control group, it did not. Primary outcome was the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months. Secondary outcomes were the proportion of women who perceived their milk to be insufficient, who stopped breastfeeding because of problems, and who reported to have received help in breastfeeding management by their partners.Results The prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 25% (35 of 140) in the intervention group and 15% (21 of 140) in the control group and that of any breastfeeding at 12 months was 19% (27) and 11% (16) Conclusions Teaching fathers how to prevent and to manage the most common lactation difficulties is associated with higher rates of full breastfeeding at 6 months. Pediatrics 2005;116:e494-e498. URL: www.pediatrics.org/ cgi

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“…A associação entre o pai residir com a criança e maior tempo de aleitamento materno está de acordo com descrições da literatura em relação à importância da influência paterna sobre o início e duração da amamentação 28,29,30,31 .…”

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Fatores associados à duração do aleitamento materno em três municípios na região do Alto Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Silveira

Lamounier

2006

Cad. Saúde Pública

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O objetivo do estudo foi identificar e analisar as variáveis associadas à menor duração do aleitamento materno em três municípios da região do Alto Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Este foi um estudo do tipo transversal, com dados retrospectivos, em três municípios da região. Foram consideradas, para o estudo, todas as crianças com até 24 meses de idade. A análise estatística foi feita utilizando-se o método de Kaplan-Meier e o modelo de regressão de Cox. Foram estudadas 450 crianças. Três variáveis foram associadas com a duração do aleitamento materno: risco de interrupção precoce 1,59 [1,08;2,36] vez maior se a escolaridade paterna for maior ou igual ao segundo grau completo, 1,52 [1,00;2,34] vez maior quando o pai não reside com a criança e 3,07 [2,17;4,34] vezes maior quando as crianças usaram chupeta. Assim sendo, maior escolaridade paterna, uso de chupeta pela criança e o fato de o pai não residir com a criança foram os fatores associados com menor duração do aleitamento materno.

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A Description of a Male-Focused Breastfeeding Promotion Corporate Lactation Program

Cited by 46 publications

References 24 publications

Influence of Partner Support on an Employed Mother's Intention to Breastfeed After Returning to Work

Influence of Partner Support on an Employed Mother's Intention to Breastfeed After Returning to Work

A Controlled Trial of the Father's Role in Breastfeeding Promotion

Fatores associados à duração do aleitamento materno em três municípios na região do Alto Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brasil

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