The article, “Hospital Practices and Women’s Likelihood of Fulfilling Their Intention to Exclusively Breastfeed” by Declercq et. al. (2009) discusses that a woman ought to bear in mind the intention of breastfeeding in the last stages of her pregnancy and on the feeding method of her infant a week after delivery. The article acknowledged the implementation of rules that holds up breastfeeding with the attention of getting rid of deficiencies on healthy infants.
Nevertheless the article has its limitations, one of which has to do with the authors not providing a validation that breastfeeding intentions were precisely recalled by women. The goal of the author in assessing the possible issues that obstructed the attainment of the intent on breastfeeding and improving the rates of women that breastfed their infants are much admired. In order to have an accurate gauge of data in the breastfeeding completion against intention, the survey on the intent of breastfeeding should be recalled exactly.
There is also an appealing point of the author that they have found among the multiparas and primaparas, that the initiation of breastfeeding was not considerably related. To avoid overestimation of the rates in breastfeeding, the questions on the survey should be addressed to mothers experiencing difficulty in breastfeeding because of medical or other grounds. As a recommendation, the article should also have a data for the intention of feeding and other techniques regarding caesarean sections or based on ethnicities so that women will be able to know the significance of these causes other than the practices in the hospital.
Mother’s in communities need to be taught with the proper way of breastfeeding and they should be made aware of the benefits of it. The promotion, protection and support on breastfeeding are the primary concerns of nurses in promulgating this.
References
Declercq, E. , Labbok, M. , Sakala, C. , & O’Hara, M. A. , (2009). Hospital Practices and Women’s Likelihood of Fulfilling Their Intention to Exclusively Breastfeed. American Journal of Public Health. Vol 99, 5.