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 |