The interplay between maternal employment dynamics and trends in breastfeeding practices over the past decade.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Working mothers are in a situation where they have to manage both their job and maternal roles simultaneously. We aim to show the relationship between mothers' breastfeeding behavior and working status, as well as the effect of their working conditions on the continuation of breastfeeding.

Methods

This study examined 3557 (weighted 3490) child-mother pairs from Turkey's Demographic Health Survey data in 2008, 2013, and 2018 with a complex sample multiple logistic regression analysis to explore the relationship between breastfeeding and maternal employment.

Results

In our study, 35.5% of the mothers had never worked, 18.6% were still working, and 45.9% had worked in the past but were not currently working. When breastfeeding percentages were examined based o

SUBMITTER: Cicek S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11312228 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature