Artificial milk-feeding women's views of their feeding choice in Ireland

摘要

Objective: despite the well-documented benefits of breast feeding to both mother and child, breast-feeding initiation rates in Ireland are he second lowest in Europe. This study set out to explore the views of women from low socio-economic groups in Ireland on their choice to feed their infants artificial milk, and to elicit factors that may encourage these women to breast feed in the future.