Breastfeeding within the circle of motherhood, restriction, and patriarchy: A qualitative study

Abstract

Our purpose in the present study is to analyze the opinions of women regarding the factors that support and hinder their breastfeeding. This is a phenomenological and qualitative study. The present study included 32 breastfeeding women who live in different provinces in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview form and were evaluated using the content analysis method. Three themes and ten sub-themes about women’s experience on breastfeeding their babies and factors affecting their breastfeeding were found. The themes identified were: motherhood, restriction, patriarchy. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2021.1935958. © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.