Fathers’ emotional challenges and barriers to supporting breastfeeding initiation and duration
Fathers’ emotional challenges and barriers to supporting breastfeeding initiation and duration
Exclusive breastfeeding has significant health benefits for mother and child. Research highlights the important role of fathers in helping increase breastfeeding rates, but little is known about their emotional needs and how these affect breastfeeding decisions. This article aims to explore and identify the emotional challenges fathers experience, and how they affect initiation and duration rates. Eleven studies were included in the literature review and four themes were identified: Information/education; Decision making; Role/attachment; and Wellbeing. The findings suggest that fathers should be proactively involved in breastfeeding interventions and should recognise their own emotional needs to positively influence breastfeeding rates.
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Buttery, Julie
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Mancz, Gilly
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Buttery, Julie
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Mancz, Gilly
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Buttery, Julie and Mancz, Gilly
(2022)
Fathers’ emotional challenges and barriers to supporting breastfeeding initiation and duration.
Journal of Health Visiting, 10 (11), .
(doi:10.12968/johv.2022.10.11.468).
Abstract
Exclusive breastfeeding has significant health benefits for mother and child. Research highlights the important role of fathers in helping increase breastfeeding rates, but little is known about their emotional needs and how these affect breastfeeding decisions. This article aims to explore and identify the emotional challenges fathers experience, and how they affect initiation and duration rates. Eleven studies were included in the literature review and four themes were identified: Information/education; Decision making; Role/attachment; and Wellbeing. The findings suggest that fathers should be proactively involved in breastfeeding interventions and should recognise their own emotional needs to positively influence breastfeeding rates.
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Accepted/In Press date: 24 October 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 November 2022
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Local EPrints ID: 477344
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/477344
ISSN: 2050-8719
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