Constructing compatibility: managing breast-feeding and weaning from the mother's perspective

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 897-914

  Hauck, Yvonne L ^a   Irurita, Vera R ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUSTRALIA; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME; WEANING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS; WEANING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036718953     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104973202129120340     Document Type: Article

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