A Survey on the Factors of Breast Feeding Failure Related to the Role of Medical Personnels |
Min Jung Cho1, Cheong Mi Cheon2, Jeong Kyung Seo3, Son Moon Shin2 |
1Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea 2Department of Pediatrics, Sung Kyun Kwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Cheil Hospital, Seoul, Korea 3Department of Pediatrics, Sung Kyun Kwan University School of Medicine, Masan Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Korea |
의료인과 관련된 모유수유 실패요인 분석 |
조민정1, 천정미2, 서정경3, 신손문2 |
1영남대학교 의과대학 소아과학교실 2성균관의대 삼성제일병원 소아과 3성균관의대 마산삼성병원 소아과 |
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Abstract |
Purpose : The reasons for breast feeding failure within the first month of birth were related to inappropriate handling of problems in breast feeding. We investigated common reasons for the failure during the neonatal period and assessed medical personnels` attempts to solve them.
Methods : We conducted a survey with a prepared questionnaire on one-hundred-twenty mothers who failed in breast feeding within the first month after delivery. They were selected among those who brought their infants to local private clinics or general hospitals in Taegu from July to August 1999.
Results : The breast feeding rate at the starting time of feeding after delivery was significantly higher in the infants who were born at local clinics than general hospitals(52.7% vs 31.8%, P< 0.05), and higher with rooming-in service than routine nursery care(62.1% vs 31.8%, P<0.05). Most with routine nursery care(79.7%) had to feed breast milk at the appointed time. As a consequence, hospital policy was inconvenient for breast feeding. 51.7 per cent of the responders did not even try breast feeding until discharge from hospitals. Information about breast feeding were obtained mainly from their mothers` advice(39.3%). And it was only 7.7 per cent of the responders who obtained information from physicians. The common reasons for breast feeding failure within the first month were insufficient secretion of milk(36.7%), looser stool(16.7%), and inverted nipple(15%), which could have been solved with adequate support and advice from medical personnel.
Conclusion : To increase the breast feeding rate, medical personnel should actively recommend breast feeding as early as possible after delivery, should educate mothers on the problems that may arise during breast feeding, and should make the hospital environment more convenient for breast feeding. |
Key Words:
Breast feeding failure |
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