While antenatal education and counselling is helpful, 8 68 % of
mothers said that early problems with breast feeding was the main reason they stopped nursing before two months postpartum.7
Other barriers were lack of knowledge about breast feeding and lack of support from health professionals.7 Women value being shown how to breast feed rather
than being told how to.9 10 Evidence of effective interventions to improve exclusive breast feeding for the recommended
duration of six months is sparse.