Patterns of breast feeding. I. Factors affecting the frequency of breast feeding in the newborn period
Salber, E.J.; Stitt, P.G.; Babbott, J.G.
New England Journal of Medicine 259(15): 707-713
1958
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-4793 PMID: 13590431 DOI: 10.1056/nejm195810092591502Document Number: 345233
A retrospective investigation of breast feeding was made from the records of 114 primigravidae who attended a special clinic in Boston between 1950 and 1956. Many were college-educated women. Seventy-one attempted breast-feeding; the proportion doing so was not influenced by the mother's age, her colour or whether she herself had been breast fed. The better educated women and those in the higher social classes started breast feeding more often, but no evidence is presented of their eventual success. Most women had made up their minds on the subject some time before delivery.