Related conditions to breastfeeding delay

Reasons

Number

(%)

Mother

Delivery by ceasarean section

55

22.0

Ignorance

51

20.4

No milk production

23

9.2

Mother’s refusal

21

8.4

Ill mother

17

8.0

Nipple anomalies

2

0.8

Health care provider

Lack of advice to the mother

9

3.6

Wrong advice to the mother

2

0.8

Newborn

Ill or hospitalized baby

19

7.6

Sleeping baby

13

5.2

Socio-cultural beliefs

“Spoiled milk”

40

16.0

Death of a baby due to breastfeeding

9

3.6