Abstract:

The most important component of nutrition for the health and development of babies and children is breast milk. The early start and success of breastfeeding is of great importance for the mother and baby. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the knowledge and behavior of pregnancies about breastfeeding. The aim of this study is to determine the levels of knowledge of the mothers who are born in the Düzce University Health Application and Research Center, mother’s milk and breastfeeding and the conditions of breastfeeding their babies. Materials and Methods: The universe of the study in the Cutting-edge type was formed by 137 mothers born in the Düzce University Health Application and Research Center between 1 December 2018 and 31 December 2018. It was aimed to reach the whole universe and 80 (58.3%) was reached to the mother. As a data collection tool, the researchers have developed the "Information and Attitudes Survey on Mother Milk and Breastfeeding" and the "Mother Breast Identification Measurement Tool (LATCH)". The data is evaluated with the SPSS for Windows 22.0 package program. The data assessment used Student-t test, one-way variance analysis (ANOVA), Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskall-Wallis test, Pearson Correlation Analysis, and linear regression analysis. The findings: The average age of the mothers involved was 28.30±5.22. 98.8 percent of mothers found that breast milk was the ideal nutrition for their baby, and 72.5 percent did not know that breastfeeding immediately after childbirth reduces postpartum bleeding. The LATCH scale average of the mothers is 6.64±1.91, and the scale score has shown significant differences according to the previous living birth status, breastfeeding experience, birth form and birth anesthesia (p=0,01), (p<0,001), (p=0,01), (p=0,01). There was a positive correlation between the number of living children and the score taken from scale. Multi-variable analysis found that the experience of breastfeeding (β=1,297, p=0,003) and the normal form of birth (β=0,919, p=0,043) increased the success of breastfeeding. The conclusion: It is believed that awareness that mothers should avoid the use of non-indicated caesarine is important to increase breastfeeding success. It is also important for the mothers who have caesarean birth or have no breastfeeding experience to organize the training that they can learn more about the problems they may encounter and practice in order to start and continue breastfeeding healthy.

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