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Article: Barriers to breastfeeding: a qualitative study of the views of health professionals and lay counsellors

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May 1, 2006
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Increasing breastfeeding initiation rates is now a target for the NHS. The attitudes and beliefs of health professionals are known to influence mothers' decisions to breastfeed. This paper describes a small qualitative study of health visitors' (n=7), midwives' (n=3) and lay breastfeeding counsellors' (n=2) views of obstacles to breastfeeding. Interviews showed that day-to-day practice is informed by training and personal experience with research evidence having a more limited influence. Health professionals may experience tensions between these influences on their practice. Practical problems in accessing training make it difficult for health professionals to stay up-to-date with ...

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