The Indonesian Journal of Community and Occupational Medicine
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2024): ijcom

A Constant Struggle of Breastfeeding at Workplace: A Narrative Review

Panggabean, Elda Oncossya (Unknown)
Ray Wagiu Basrowi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Mar 2024

Abstract

Breastfeeding has been shown and proved to offer numerous health benefits for infants and mothers. Despite this fact, studies have found that the level of exclusive breastfeeding continues to be low both in developed and developing countries. The issues with breastfeed and continue breastfeeding due to multiple factors, one of the biggest challenges is as a working mother. Working mothers face the challenge of balancing breastfeeding and paid work, thereby increasing the risk of early cessation of breastfeeding in general and exclusive breastfeeding. There are many studies to overcome these issues, however not many studies exposing the ethical issues, difficulties and opportunities while solving this matter. Such as moral work women undertake when engaging with breastfeeding, influenced by cultural and social norms that makes it harder for breastfeeding mother.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijcom

Publisher

Subject

Health Professions Medicine & Pharmacology

Description

IJCOM publishes original research articles, expert opinion, consensus, literature and systematic review as well as commentary focusing on various streams of community health sciences and occupational medicine including health and safety sciences and researches, community and occupational nutrition, ...