Warm bodies, cool milk: Conflicts in post partum food choice for Indochinese women in California

Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district

“…Another Ghanaian study, revealed that pregnant women in some Ghanaian communities avoid fufu, gari, kokonte (all cassava based foods), fresh fish, corn dough porridge, eggs, banana, crabs and ripe plantain [ 21 ]. Findings from this current study support others in which food taboos during pregnancy are found to be more elaborate, nutritionally significant and differ only in type and characteristics [ 22 , 23 ].…”

Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district

“…Another Ghanaian study, revealed that pregnant women in some Ghanaian communities avoid fufu, gari, kokonte (all cassava based foods), fresh fish, corn dough porridge, eggs, banana, crabs and ripe plantain [ 21 ]. Findings from this current study support others in which food taboos during pregnancy are found to be more elaborate, nutritionally significant and differ only in type and characteristics [ 22 , 23 ].…”

Understanding the cultural context of Chinese mothers’ perceptions of breastfeeding and infant health in Canada

“…Specifically, the priority of traditional Chinese postpartum care is to bring the mother’s body back into harmony after giving birth with consumption of ‘hot’ food and getting adequate rest (Cheung 1997). Similar findings were also made by Fishman et al. (1988) where mothers in the study perceived breast milk as an unstable food with nutritional properties when one’s health and diet are not balanced.…”

Initial breastfeeding attitudes and practices of women born in Turkey, Vietnam and Australia after giving birth in Australia

“…The results of this study add to the previously reported finding that immigrant Vietnamese women are less likely to initiate exclusive breastfeeding following migration to a new country [ 9 , 10 , 19 - 25 ]. Reasons previously cited for low breastfeeding rates among immigrant women are convenience [ 19 , 25 ], perceptions of impaired quality of milk [ 19 , 35 ] economic reasons such as the need to return to work [ 22 , 25 ], a decrease in social support, [ 22 , 25 ], perceptions that more affluent families do not breastfeed their own babies [ 22 ] and a desire to conform to the perceived cultural norm of the new country [ 35 ]. In this study, reasons for breastfeeding outcomes were not explored in-depth and it is therefore difficult to draw conclusions.…”

Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district

“…Another Ghanaian study, revealed that pregnant women in some Ghanaian communities avoid fufu, gari, kokonte (all cassava based foods), fresh fish, corn dough porridge, eggs, banana, crabs and ripe plantain [ 21 ]. Findings from this current study support others in which food taboos during pregnancy are found to be more elaborate, nutritionally significant and differ only in type and characteristics [ 22 , 23 ].…”

Understanding the cultural context of Chinese mothers’ perceptions of breastfeeding and infant health in Canada

“…Specifically, the priority of traditional Chinese postpartum care is to bring the mother’s body back into harmony after giving birth with consumption of ‘hot’ food and getting adequate rest (Cheung 1997). Similar findings were also made by Fishman et al. (1988) where mothers in the study perceived breast milk as an unstable food with nutritional properties when one’s health and diet are not balanced.…”

Initial breastfeeding attitudes and practices of women born in Turkey, Vietnam and Australia after giving birth in Australia

“…The results of this study add to the previously reported finding that immigrant Vietnamese women are less likely to initiate exclusive breastfeeding following migration to a new country [ 9 , 10 , 19 - 25 ]. Reasons previously cited for low breastfeeding rates among immigrant women are convenience [ 19 , 25 ], perceptions of impaired quality of milk [ 19 , 35 ] economic reasons such as the need to return to work [ 22 , 25 ], a decrease in social support, [ 22 , 25 ], perceptions that more affluent families do not breastfeed their own babies [ 22 ] and a desire to conform to the perceived cultural norm of the new country [ 35 ]. In this study, reasons for breastfeeding outcomes were not explored in-depth and it is therefore difficult to draw conclusions.…”

Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district

“…Another Ghanaian study, revealed that pregnant women in some Ghanaian communities avoid fufu, gari, kokonte (all cassava based foods), fresh fish, corn dough porridge, eggs, banana, crabs and ripe plantain [ 21 ]. Findings from this current study support others in which food taboos during pregnancy are found to be more elaborate, nutritionally significant and differ only in type and characteristics [ 22 , 23 ].…”

Understanding the cultural context of Chinese mothers’ perceptions of breastfeeding and infant health in Canada

“…Specifically, the priority of traditional Chinese postpartum care is to bring the mother’s body back into harmony after giving birth with consumption of ‘hot’ food and getting adequate rest (Cheung 1997). Similar findings were also made by Fishman et al. (1988) where mothers in the study perceived breast milk as an unstable food with nutritional properties when one’s health and diet are not balanced.…”

Initial breastfeeding attitudes and practices of women born in Turkey, Vietnam and Australia after giving birth in Australia

“…The results of this study add to the previously reported finding that immigrant Vietnamese women are less likely to initiate exclusive breastfeeding following migration to a new country [ 9 , 10 , 19 - 25 ]. Reasons previously cited for low breastfeeding rates among immigrant women are convenience [ 19 , 25 ], perceptions of impaired quality of milk [ 19 , 35 ] economic reasons such as the need to return to work [ 22 , 25 ], a decrease in social support, [ 22 , 25 ], perceptions that more affluent families do not breastfeed their own babies [ 22 ] and a desire to conform to the perceived cultural norm of the new country [ 35 ]. In this study, reasons for breastfeeding outcomes were not explored in-depth and it is therefore difficult to draw conclusions.…”