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Kathy Boggs <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:10:20 EST
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Heather (I think) writes: When asked 'would you have liked to breastfeed for
longer?'  the
majority of women say 'yes' , right up to  the category '4 months,
less than 6 months' when 48 per cent say it.

I think a study re breastfeeding goals and the number of women who meet them
would have to be designed a little differently. I suspect mothers might
retrospectively say they wished they could have bf longer, but that this
might not really have been their original goal. I think it would be
interesting to ask women in their last trimesters how long they wished to
nurse and then to do a follow up a year later to see how close they come to
their originally stated goals.  I suspect, for instance, that a mom who says
"I'm going to try for a month" will be giving bottles within a week, if not
immediately.  I would contrast this with a mother who strongly states that
she plans to BF for a year or longer.  I believe that many more of these
women will come close to meeting this goal.  In other words, I think that
intention translates into accomplishment, but that we need to be pretty sure
of what the real intention is to evaluate it. Has anyone studied this?

Kathy Boggs, RN, IBCLC

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