Breastfeeding practices in mothers: a qualitative study

Marzuki, Nanis S.; Yohmi, Elizabeth; Nainggolan, Eveline; Hegar, Badriul; Oswari, Hanifah; Partiwi, I Gusti Ayu Nyoman

doi:10.14238/pi54.1.2014.35-41

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“…Two recent qualitative studies provide instructive insights into contemporary breastfeeding practices and understandings among Indonesian women (Marzuki et al, 2014;Nuzrina, Bashita, & Basuki, 2016). Marzuki and colleagues (2014) interviewed 36 women in Jakarta, North Sumatra, South Kalimantan and South Celebes with the aim of understanding infant feeding influences.…”

Section: Performance Of and Perceptions Towards Breastfeeding Among Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Marzuki and colleagues (2014) interviewed 36 women in Jakarta, North Sumatra, South Kalimantan and South Celebes with the aim of understanding infant feeding influences. The majority of participants in their study intended to breastfeed and had a positive attitude towards breastfeeding (Marzuki et al, 2014). The participants emphasised the emotional bonding between a mother and her child as a positive aspect of breastfeeding (Marzuki et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The majority of participants in their study intended to breastfeed and had a positive attitude towards breastfeeding (Marzuki et al, 2014). The participants emphasised the emotional bonding between a mother and her child as a positive aspect of breastfeeding (Marzuki et al, 2014). In Nuzrina, Roshita and Basuki's (2016) study, 14 women in West Jakarta were interviewed four times between week 36 of their pregnancies and the first 30 days postpartum.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although breastfeeding has historically been a normative practice in Java and other parts of Indonesia, exclusive breastfeeding has not. This is because breastmilk's nutritional value has long been perceived by Indonesian mothers to be inadequate as an infant's sole or even primary food source (Geertz, 1961;Hull, 1979;Winikoff et al, 1981;Margawati, 2005;Marzuki et al, 2014;Nuzrina, Roshita, & Basuki, 2016). Winikoff et al (1981) found that 46 per cent of infants were breastfed exclusively for the first month, but that this figure fell sharply to 12.5 per cent at three months.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, there is limited understanding of the impact of this policy on the lives of Indonesian women. The majority of recent research has been purely descriptive and focused on women's infant feeding knowledge, attitudes and practices, or has explored exclusive breastfeeding barriers and facilitators (Fauzie, Suradi, & Hadinegoro, 2007;Februhartanty, Wibowo, Fahmida, & Roshita, 2012;Idris et al, 2013;Marzuki et al, 2014;Mufdlilah, Akhyar, Sutisna, & Subijanto, 2016;Nuzrina, Roshita, & Basuki, 2016;Rahmawati, 2016). In contrast, our critique unpacks the substance of Indonesian breastfeeding promotions and their embodiment by women.…”

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Moralising Rhetoric and Imperfect Realities: Breastfeeding Promotions and the Experiences of Recently Delivered Mothers in Urban Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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Bennett

Kermode

et al. 2018

Asian Studies Review

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Exclusive breastfeeding is embedded in National Health Law and Regulation in Indonesia and is vigorously promoted by health workers, breastfeeding counsellors and religious leaders. This article explores the transformation of state legislation into breastfeeding promotions that are imbued with moralising assumptions directed at expectant women, new mothers and their partners. Drawing on an 18-month ethnographic study, the rhetoric of breastfeeding promotion messages is contrasted with the narratives of urban middle-class mothers in Yogyakarta. This article highlights the challenges women experience in their attempts to breastfeed and the divergence between the moralising rhetoric of breastfeeding promotions and women's imperfect lived realities. It demonstrates how dominant health promotion messages construct breastfeeding as a moral issue, insist women are obligated to breastfeed their infants, and fail to acknowledge women's choice, reproductive agency and bodily autonomy. Such messaging assumes the right of infants to be breastfed, and emphasises the developmental problems likely to befall children who are not breastfed. Gendered expectations that all mothers will assume their breastfeeding role selflessly and dutifully are also embedded in breastfeeding promotion messages. We conclude that breastfeeding promotion messages need to be more inclusive and less moralising in their substance and delivery to better serve Indonesian women. Women are likely to feel more supported and less alienated by breastfeeding promotion messages that recognise the possibility of common breastfeeding challenges, such as difficulty establishing successful breastfeeding, the baby blues, the likelihood of suffering discomfort from breastfeeding in public, and issues with the premature cessation of breastfeeding.

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Section: Performance Of and Perceptions Towards Breastfeeding Among Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Performance Of and Perceptions Towards Breastfeeding Among Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Performance Of and Perceptions Towards Breastfeeding Among Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Performance Of and Perceptions Towards Breastfeeding Among Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Moralising Rhetoric and Imperfect Realities: Breastfeeding Promotions and the Experiences of Recently Delivered Mothers in Urban Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Spagnoletti

Bennett

Kermode

et al. 2018

Asian Studies Review

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Breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices among children living in a rice surplus area, Central Java, Indonesia

Barati

Purwestri

Wirawan

et al. 2018

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices among children less than five years old and living in a rice surplus area in Demak Regency, Central Java. Design/methodology/approach From December 2014 to February 2015, a cross-sectional survey was carried out in Demak, which had a high proportion of undernourished children despite high rice production. In total, 384 mothers having children below five years old from farmer family background were interviewed using a structured questionnaire about sociodemographic parameters and child feeding practices. Food habits were also investigated among these women during two focus group discussions in two selected sub-districts. Findings Only 10.9 per cent of the children were exclusively breastfed for six months. About 60 per cent of the mothers practiced supplementary feeding in addition to breastfeeding and started complementary feeding too early. Duration of exclusive breastfeeding practice and child’s age at onset of complementary feeding were positively correlated (p = 0.04). The main reasons of supplementary feeding and too early introduction of complementary food were based on the elderly women’s opinions, and the very short duration of maternity leave for employed mothers. Mothers with a low education level had a higher chance of not reaching the optimum score of complementary feeding practices (p = 0.012). Originality/value Despite a high level of food security in the project area, inadequate knowledge of young child feeding practices has contributed to sub-optimal breastfeeding practices. Higher educated women were more likely to follow optimal complementary feeding practices. Therefore, promotion of breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices targeting all key actors should be implemented in the study area to prevent undernutrition among infants.

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Involvement of Civil Society Organization in Facilitating the Implementation of Ten Steps for Successful Breastfeeding: Analysis of Health Care Workers’ Perspectives?

Januraga

Frisdiantiny²,

Crosita

et al. 2020

J Nutr Sci Vitaminol

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Breastfeeding practices in mothers: a qualitative study

Abstract: Background Despite the WHO and UNICEF recommendations,

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Moralising Rhetoric and Imperfect Realities: Breastfeeding Promotions and the Experiences of Recently Delivered Mothers in Urban Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Moralising Rhetoric and Imperfect Realities: Breastfeeding Promotions and the Experiences of Recently Delivered Mothers in Urban Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices among children living in a rice surplus area, Central Java, Indonesia

Involvement of Civil Society Organization in Facilitating the Implementation of Ten Steps for Successful Breastfeeding: Analysis of Health Care Workers’ Perspectives?

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