Maternal Sense of Control During Childbirth and Infant Feeding Method

Annie Dude1, Lida M Fette, Uma M Reddy

  • 1Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; George Washington University Biostatistics Center, Washington, DC; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; Stanford University, Stanford, California; Columbia University, New York, New York; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston-Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; MetroHealth Medical Center-Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland.

Obstetrics and Gynecology
|February 7, 2020
PubMed
Summary

Maternal sense of control during childbirth was not linked to breastfeeding outcomes at 4-8 weeks postpartum in a study of low-risk nulliparous women. This finding held true after adjusting for potential confounding factors.

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