b. Public breastfeeding is deeply controversial in that it feeds a mother’s offspring and repulse others in the process.
c. The reason as to why is that of potential embarrassment with their display in an environment full of judgmental strangers.
d. The theory of planned behavior considers how attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control predicts women’s health-related actions for their kid’s benefit rather than others.
II. (Main Point 1):
a. Breast milk following skin-to-skin contact provided optimal infant nutrition with regards to its positive association …show more content…
The application of this framework relies on important drivers of an attitude or beliefs such as health concerns and social support.
III. (Main Point 2):
a. This social cognition model goes on to play a major role in the choice of human behaviors and one’s self-efficacy to pursue it.
b. Children do greatly benefit from breastfeeding exclusively; however, this approach is usually put at stake with public shaming due to requests to, “cover up or move from the premises, negatively affects the breastfeeding experience by turning infant feeding practices into something perverse or shameful. Of particular concern is that early negative experiences in breastfeeding may dissuade mothers from continuing exclusive breastfeeding” (Dillard, 2015, p. 73).
c. It is imperative for such feeding method to reach, “the point where it is publicly seen as "normal" to the extent that breastfeeding in public arouses no comment one way or another, there will be much less need for active interventions to encourage behavior changes” (Tapp, Warren, Rhodes, Condon, & Withall, 2013, p. 158).
d. These incidents continue to significantly impact such mothers placed outside of their comfort zone met with apprehension as opposed to toleration.
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Even though, breastfeeding rates have, “improved following informational campaigns, federal and state initiatives to increase awareness of breastfeeding benefits have stalled, particularly in maintaining breastfeeding intention, creating opportunities for exploration of less conventional and more localized positively deviant approaches to promoting breastfeeding” (Dillard, 2015, p. 72).
d. These implications also clarify the variability behind feeding intentions and duration proportionate to underlying motivational processes.
VI. Conclusion
a. There exist various psychosocial determinants that impact the purpose of a mother to breastfeeding the public’s eye.
b. The multidimensional phenomenon of breastfeeding is a biological practice that still holds negative perceptions and lacks acceptance in social settings.
c. This examination helps to identify women at-risk for early attrition of breastfeeding, regardless of desired consequences from their capability to do so.
d. These measurements come about the deliberation of a planned behavior relative to open breastfeeding in terms of their commitment to doing it.
e. Efforts have to be organized for this vulnerable population in targeting appropriate interventions to encourage and develop positive norms for