Women's experiences of long-term breastfeeding

Practising Midwife

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 22-25

  Dowling, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

BREAST FEEDING; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 73249136145     PISSN: 14613123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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