On the event of World Breastfeeding Week, Medela India, main producer of breast pumps and nursing equipment and Momspresso, India’s largest user-generated content material platform for ladies, carried out a survey amongst moms throughout Indian to glean insights into the challenges confronted by breastfeeding moms, titled “Breastfeeding Challenges for Indian Mothers”. The survey highlights how breastfeeding moms are dealing with challenges associated to their speedy environments corresponding to their dwelling and office.
Key findings of the survey:
- Over 70% of Indian mothers really feel breastfeeding is a difficult expertise
- Apparently, 78% moms have breastfed their infants for a 12 months or extra
- The prime motivators for continued breastfeeding, regardless of its demanding nature, had been the well being advantages of breastfeeding for infants (98.6%), the ensuing sturdy mother-child bond (73.4%), well being advantages for the breastfeeding mom (57.5%) and the load loss side related to breastfeeding (39.7%)
- The highest six breastfeeding challenges confronted by Indian mothers as revealed within the survey findings had been early day challenges corresponding to sore and cracked nipples, latching drawback, engorged breasts (34.7%), exhaustion from waking up in the midst of the night time, too many feeding periods and lengthy feeding periods (31.8%), points like child biting (26.61%), milk provide points (22.7%), breastfeeding in public (17.81%) and postpartum despair (17.42%)
- 38% mothers additional talked about that the preliminary days after the delivery of the infant had been probably the most difficult time of their breastfeeding journey
- Fortuitously, 64% mothers acquired the much-required familial assist in abundance
- Moreover, 37% of mothers additional talked about that they acquired assist from their partner, 24% mothers turned to the web for breastfeeding recommendation, whereas solely 19.9% sought medical recommendation. Regardless of the assist from their households and spouses, 30% of moms discovered balancing household calls for and work a problem whereas breastfeeding
Commenting on the analysis, Emilie Moulard, MD, Medela stated, “Breastfeeding has lengthy been deemed probably the most “pure factor” in India, supported by statistics the place two-thirds of moms breastfeed for not less than two years. Nonetheless, this nice determine hides the truth that unique breastfeeding charges are literally fairly low and that too usually society (well being professionals, household and so forth.) fails a mom who faces challenges associated to breastfeeding. Surveys like this one present that the taboo of breastfeeding is slowly fading away. And having the ability to establish hurdles will probably be of nice assist to supply options to guarantee that each mom who desires to provide her child her milk can achieve this. Even when the infant is untimely and refrained from her. Even when she will get cracked nipple or engorgement. Even when she has to return to the workplace. There’s all the time an answer.”
Talking on the examine, Prashant Sinha, Co-Founder & COO of Momspresso stated, “Momspresso has all the time strived to create a protected house for mothers to debate their challenges and search assist for a similar. When a child is born, all the focus shifts from the lady going by the powerful post-pregnancy stage to the new child child. This Breastfeeding Week, we imagine it’s time for us to grasp that new mothers want care and a focus as properly. It’s important, now, to acknowledge the widespread points confronted by younger mothers and begin a dialog resulting in motion on easy methods to make the breastfeeding journey simpler for them. The mothers who took half within the survey gave us stunning and poignant insights into their journey as new moms. By means of our survey, our overarching objective has been to assist these mothers notice that they don’t seem to be alone of their journeys and to additionally convey out the problems they face to the fore. Additional, we imagine that the examine’s outcomes will encourage spouses, households and workplaces, to increase elevated assist and empower breastfeeding Indian mothers.”
The survey efficiently revealed that devoted super-moms breastfeed their infants regardless of the quite a few points they arrive throughout each day. It additionally highlighted that regardless of breastfeeding being a pure a part of motherhood, breastfeeding doesn’t come naturally to mothers. This survey was instrumental in underlining that exterior components can have a profound impression on breastfeeding mothers and by offering a constructive, supportive setting for them, they are often helped in nourishing their infants with out compromising on their very own bodily and psychological well-being.
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