In this issue, we publish 10 studies about what causes women to stop exclusive breastfeeding. Some structural variables that contribute are poverty, racism, and limited education. Poor women in India and the United States were less likely to breastfeed exclusively for the recommended period and in a Chinese study limited education was also a predictor. Several Turkish researchers recognize the structural variables that perhaps they cannot do anything about, while also noticing that women will not breastfeed if they don’t feel that they are efficient in the process or if they experience pain in the process of breastfeeding. These things they can do something about. You will thus read about the need for social support and about research interventions. The interventions range from efforts to improve breastfeeding self-efficacy with education and encouraging breastfeeding by interventions that reduce the pain some women experience. As always, read and learn!
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January 15, 2023
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