Objective: To synthesise the evidence on prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy, including identifying concepts and theoretical frameworks that underpin its development, measurement, interventions used to improve it, association with outcomes. Background: Breastfeeding self-efficacy is described as a woman’s self-belief confidence in...

Public health agencies around the world have renewed efforts to increase the incidence and duration of breastfeeding. Maternity leave mandates present an economic policy that could help achieve these goals. We study their efficacy, focusing on a significant increase in maternity leave mandates in Canada. We find very large increases in mothers' time away from work post-birth and in the attainme...

Introduction: The covid-19 pandemic restrict face-to-face breastfeeding counseling. present study aimed to investigate "the effect of telemidwifery counseling on self-efficacy primiparous mothers during the pandemic". Methods: In this randomized controlled trial, 122 pregnant referring health centers from January May 2022 participated. Random allocation was done using balanced blocks method. ad...