The breastfeeding initiation rate has been about 43 to 44%. By the time the infant was 6 months old, only about 12 to 13 % of these were still breastfeeding. The decision to breastfeed or to bottle-feed was most often made before pregnancy or during the first trimester.
The most common reasons mothers chose breastfeeding included: 1) benefits the infant's health, 2) naturalness, and 3) emotional bonding with the infant.. Health promotion practice must acknowledge that health behaviour is influenced by a wide range of personal, social and cultural factors, health promotion practice involves ‘social phenomena, wide-reaching cultural, psychological, political and ideological problems and issues’ as well as biomedical and clinical ones . Breastfeeding creates a tension between the sexual objectification of women’s bodies for pleasure and their role as an organic and natural method of…
