Saudi Mothers’ Expected Intentions and Attitudes Toward Breast-Feeding

ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-198

  al Madani, Maha ^a   Vydelingum, Vasso ^a   Lawrence, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attitudes; bottle feeding; breast feeding; infant feeding; intentions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997907972     PISSN: 19414064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1941406410369699     Document Type: Article

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