Breastfeeding Evaluation of Puerperal Women Who Had Cesarean Delivery in Our Hospital

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İntroduction The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) recommends that infants are exclusively breastfed for a minimum of 6 months, with continued breastfeeding recommended until child age of 2 years or over to optimize growth, development, and health. Breast milk shows significant benefits for the physical and mental health of mothers and infants, including the promotion of maternal and infant bonding, the reduction of neonatal mortality, the reduction of maternal postoperative complications, and the development of newborns. Breastfeeding has been associated with improved maternal/infant bonding and increased child intelligence. It is also clear that medical interventions during labor and birth, including a caesarean section, impact on women's infant feeding decisions and are a cause for concern given increasing global caesarean birth rates, with woman who have a planned caesarean birth reported as less likely to intend to breastfeed than women who did not have a planned caesarean birth or had a vaginal birth. Infrequent feeding and women's limited mobility in the early days following surgery may impede efforts to provide basic infant care. High levels of postoperative pain, particularly in the first 24 hrs, were also found to have a negative impact on women's breastfeeding experiences. Cesarean delivery is linked with lower rates of early breastfeeding initiation. Pain management after casarean delivery remains challenging. The best-accepted traditional analgesic approach is continuous epidural analgesia. However, epidural analgesia is rapidly being replaced by transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks. TAP infiltration is an alternative to epidural blocks for providing postoperative analgesia to the anterior abdominal wall. TAP infiltrations are relatively easy to perform, generally safe, and can be performed in patients who are anti-coagulated. TAP infiltration can be performed as a single injection, or a catheter can be inserted for continuous local anesthetic infusion.

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