Incompatible expectations: The dilemma of breastfeeding mothers

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-78

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

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST FEEDING; CONFUSION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GUILT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; QUESTIONNAIRE; THEORETICAL STUDY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTNATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037945323     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330390170024     Document Type: Article

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