Sentence examples for maternal intention from inspiring English sources

"The full truth is that many babies end up requiring some formula at some point despite maternal intention to breastfeed exclusively," Flaherman said.

Our secondary hypotheses were that HSP attendance would result in an increase, by at least 5%, of women undertaking adequate levels of PA; an increase of at least 30 minutes of PA per week; a decrease of at least 5% in the percentage of women who smoked during pregnancy; and an increased proportion of maternal intention to breastfeed.

"Childless women," they write, "are paid, promoted and rewarded equivalently to their male peers (and in some analyses at even higher rates)." In plotting their careers, women without maternal intentions "show decision-making comparable to men".

Health behaviours were assessed by measuring maternal nutrition, consumption of alcohol and cigarettes, and maternal intentions and practices around infant feeding and health.

Infant feeding practices are influenced by the socio-cultural milieu and maternal intentions relating to these practices tend to be consolidated during the ante-natal period.

These in-hospital infant feeding practices, especially when based on informed choices, may not in themselves be predictive of breastfeeding cessation but may be the early manifestations of maternal intentions relating to long-term infant feeding practices.

Maternal work, intention to breastfeed, pregnancy planning, source of emotional support and the intervention arms were significantly associated with exclusive breastfeeding (Table  3).

Message-specific maternal knowledge, intention and self-efficacy is being assessed using the Infant Feeding Practice Survey II [ 60, 61] adapted for prenatal and postnatal feeding practices and the Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire [ 62].

Most prior studies used maternal pregnancy intentions [ 3], however, further studies are needed to explore consequences of disagreement on pregnancy intention between partners or the role of partner's intentions on maternal mental health.

We assess lactation intentions using the Infant Feeding Intentions (IFI) scale developed by Nommsen-Rivers and Dewey [ 69] to quantitatively measure maternal breastfeeding intentions.

However, maternal infant feeding intention is a strong predictor of breastfeeding duration.