Introduction: Promoting and maintaining breastfeeding is an important part of the healthcare, nutrition and other social measures required to promote proper growth and development of infants, and a major component of primary healthcare. Several factors affect onset and duration of breastfeeding. Self-efficacy is one of those factors that can be modified, buthas been less studied. Objecti...

objective: to evaluate the effect of meperidine, commonly administered for labor analgesia, on newborn weight and peripartum breastfeeding during two months after delivery. materials and methods: this pilot cohort study was conducted between october 2010 and october 2011 at the women hospital of the tehran university of medical sciences. in this study, we examined the effects of meperidine on b...

Background Breastfeeding is an only reliable nutritional source for infants. Many factors could affect breastfeeding such as delivery type. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship of delivery type and breastfeeding successful. Materials and Methods This was a descriptive-analytical study. Subjects of this study were 298 (148 subjects [49.7%] with cesarean and 150 subject [50.3%]...

abstract background: infants’ feeding is one of the critical periods in women’s health that can influence their life. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between infants’ feeding patterns and mothers’ physical and psychological dimensions of quality of life. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 189 mothers were selected by convenience sampling (n = 63 ...

breastfeeding is the ideal and most natural way of nurturing infants. the importance of breastfeeding has been proved unequivocally, and unicef and who have issued guidelines to ensure breastfeeding. more than 14 centuries is that in islamic teachings with the most comprehensive, most beautiful and most powerful motivation, is raised important points in the form of advice and education about br...

objectives we aimed to translate the bapt into farsi, assess its content validity, and examine its reliability and validity to identify exclusive breastfeeding discontinuation in iran. materials and methods the bapt was translated into farsi and the content validity of the farsi version of the bapt was assessed. it was administered to 356 pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy, who ...

Breastfeeding can protect infants and toddlers; therefore, it is advisable to breastfeed as soon possible after the baby born. Early contact between mother a sensitive period in which an earlier delay will interfere with child's further development. Various reasons are put forward by mothers who do not exclusively their babies, including feel less milk production, difficulty sucking working mot...

Breastfeeding is the ideal and most natural way of nurturing infants. The importance of breastfeeding has been proved unequivocally, and UNICEF and WHO have issued guidelines to ensure breastfeeding. More than 14 centuries is that in Islamic teachings with the most comprehensive, most beautiful and most powerful motivation, is raised important points in the form of advice and education about br...