The impact of kin, friend and neighbor networks on infant feeding practices

Latino-American Mothers’ Perspectives on Feeding Their Young Children: A Qualitative Study

“…These influences were highlighted by the first theme, "Grandma knows best"; the mothers addressed the importance of their own mothers, mothers-in-law, and grandmothers in their feeding decisions. This finding confirms Bryant's (1982) conclusion that social networks strongly influence infant feeding practices of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Anglo families in Florida. The mothers in our sample, like those in Bryant's study, listened to members of their social network to determine when to start feeding their children solid food.…”

Latino-American Mothers’ Perspectives on Feeding Their Young Children: A Qualitative Study

“…These influences were highlighted by the first theme, "Grandma knows best"; the mothers addressed the importance of their own mothers, mothers-in-law, and grandmothers in their feeding decisions. This finding confirms Bryant's (1982) conclusion that social networks strongly influence infant feeding practices of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Anglo families in Florida. The mothers in our sample, like those in Bryant's study, listened to members of their social network to determine when to start feeding their children solid food.…”

Factors affecting the initiation of breastfeeding: implications for breastfeeding promotion

“…Firstly, infant feeding decisions seem to be made prior to, or irrespective of, direct contact with health professionals during pregnancy, childbirth or early motherhood. This supports previous research findings (Bryant, 1982;Bowes and Meehan Domokos, 1998;Earle, 2000) and appears constant both for women who choose to formula feed or breastfeed. The implications of this are two-fold: firstly, breastfeeding promotion must be targeted at women prior to conception; and secondly, it highlights the significance of the breastfeeding promotion literature targeted at all women of child-bearing age.…”

“…Research suggests that the majority of women make infant feeding decisions prior to, and irrespective of, any contact with health professionals, such as doctors, midwives or health visitors (Bryant, 1982;Bowes and Meehan Domokos, 1998). The interview data from this research study supports these findings.…”

Understanding Observed and Unobserved Health Care Access and Utilization Disparities Among U.S. Latino Adults

“…Likewise, the majority of Cuban immigrants have immediate access to health insurance for a period of time when they first come into the country, as most of them arrive as political refugees. They also benefit from a relatively affluent and well-organized social network that smoothes their transition to the United States (Bryant, 1982;Portes, 1998). Consequently, we test the robustness of our results by estimating two additional sets of decomposition models: (a) excluding Puerto Ricans and (b) excluding both Puerto Ricans and Cubans.…”

Latino-American Mothers’ Perspectives on Feeding Their Young Children: A Qualitative Study

“…These influences were highlighted by the first theme, "Grandma knows best"; the mothers addressed the importance of their own mothers, mothers-in-law, and grandmothers in their feeding decisions. This finding confirms Bryant's (1982) conclusion that social networks strongly influence infant feeding practices of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Anglo families in Florida. The mothers in our sample, like those in Bryant's study, listened to members of their social network to determine when to start feeding their children solid food.…”

Factors affecting the initiation of breastfeeding: implications for breastfeeding promotion

“…Firstly, infant feeding decisions seem to be made prior to, or irrespective of, direct contact with health professionals during pregnancy, childbirth or early motherhood. This supports previous research findings (Bryant, 1982;Bowes and Meehan Domokos, 1998;Earle, 2000) and appears constant both for women who choose to formula feed or breastfeed. The implications of this are two-fold: firstly, breastfeeding promotion must be targeted at women prior to conception; and secondly, it highlights the significance of the breastfeeding promotion literature targeted at all women of child-bearing age.…”

“…Research suggests that the majority of women make infant feeding decisions prior to, and irrespective of, any contact with health professionals, such as doctors, midwives or health visitors (Bryant, 1982;Bowes and Meehan Domokos, 1998). The interview data from this research study supports these findings.…”

Understanding Observed and Unobserved Health Care Access and Utilization Disparities Among U.S. Latino Adults

“…Likewise, the majority of Cuban immigrants have immediate access to health insurance for a period of time when they first come into the country, as most of them arrive as political refugees. They also benefit from a relatively affluent and well-organized social network that smoothes their transition to the United States (Bryant, 1982;Portes, 1998). Consequently, we test the robustness of our results by estimating two additional sets of decomposition models: (a) excluding Puerto Ricans and (b) excluding both Puerto Ricans and Cubans.…”

Latino-American Mothers’ Perspectives on Feeding Their Young Children: A Qualitative Study

“…These influences were highlighted by the first theme, "Grandma knows best"; the mothers addressed the importance of their own mothers, mothers-in-law, and grandmothers in their feeding decisions. This finding confirms Bryant's (1982) conclusion that social networks strongly influence infant feeding practices of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Anglo families in Florida. The mothers in our sample, like those in Bryant's study, listened to members of their social network to determine when to start feeding their children solid food.…”

Factors affecting the initiation of breastfeeding: implications for breastfeeding promotion

“…Firstly, infant feeding decisions seem to be made prior to, or irrespective of, direct contact with health professionals during pregnancy, childbirth or early motherhood. This supports previous research findings (Bryant, 1982;Bowes and Meehan Domokos, 1998;Earle, 2000) and appears constant both for women who choose to formula feed or breastfeed. The implications of this are two-fold: firstly, breastfeeding promotion must be targeted at women prior to conception; and secondly, it highlights the significance of the breastfeeding promotion literature targeted at all women of child-bearing age.…”

“…Research suggests that the majority of women make infant feeding decisions prior to, and irrespective of, any contact with health professionals, such as doctors, midwives or health visitors (Bryant, 1982;Bowes and Meehan Domokos, 1998). The interview data from this research study supports these findings.…”

Understanding Observed and Unobserved Health Care Access and Utilization Disparities Among U.S. Latino Adults

“…Likewise, the majority of Cuban immigrants have immediate access to health insurance for a period of time when they first come into the country, as most of them arrive as political refugees. They also benefit from a relatively affluent and well-organized social network that smoothes their transition to the United States (Bryant, 1982;Portes, 1998). Consequently, we test the robustness of our results by estimating two additional sets of decomposition models: (a) excluding Puerto Ricans and (b) excluding both Puerto Ricans and Cubans.…”