Table 6 Linking barriers to recommended tailored interventions

Misperceptions about alternate infant feeding practices (C)

1, 2, 3, 4

Physical challenges with breastfeeding (C, M, PO, SO)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Lack of written information from health workers (C, PO)

1, 2

Advice and pressure from family and friends to use alternate infant feeding practices (SO)

2, 3

Formula representatives visiting doctors in Bishkek (SO, PO)

6

Feeling uncomfortable breastfeeding in public (PO, SO)

6

Recommended interventions

 1. Improve exclusive breastfeeding information at discharge from maternity hospital

 2. Create information tools for fathers and other family members

 3. Establish peer support groups

 4. Scale-up antenatal classes “schools of mothers” and its curriculum in breastfeeding

 5. Implement a national telephone line for breastfeeding questions

 6. Create plan and mechanisms for implementation, enforcement and monitoring of new law on health protection