American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

A COMPARATIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE FACTORS AFFECTING OF BREASTFEEDING AND LATCH SCORE AMONG PRIMARY GRAVID MOTHERS WHO DELIVERED PER VAGINAL AND CESAREAN SECTION AT DR. BHIM RAO AMBEDKAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RAIPUR CHHATTISGARH

Jayanthi J*, Bheshajmanee Sahu

Breast Feeding, Latch Score, Prevaginal Caesarean

Breast feeding is first natural food for baby, it provides all the energy and nutrient that the infant needs for the first month of life and it continues to provide up to half or more of child's nutritional needs. Same factors such as knowledge psychological myths factors social and practice factors affected the breastfeeding pattern among mothers. Nurses most often use a subjective "well/fair/poor" system to assess and document breastfeeding. LATCH is a breastfeeding charting system that provides a systematic method for gathering information about individual breastfeeding session and if in need we can educate the mothers for proper breastfeeding practice. METHOD :For the main study sample size was 100 (50 primary per vaginal delivery mothers and 50 caesarean section delivery mothers) and purposive sampling is adopted to select the subject from the population .The tool used for the study is a self- structured questionnaire to collect socio-demographic data and to assess the factors affecting of breastfeeding check list for the LATCH score assessment of breast feeding among primary gravid mothers who delivered per vaginal and caesarean section. RESULTS:-It reveals that regarding the factors affecting breast feeding, practical factors is mostly affected in per vaginal and caesarean deliveries. For mothers who delivered per vaginally, the mean LATCH score for breastfeeding was 6.88, with a standard deviation of 1.27199 and a standard error mean of 0.179. The t-statistic was calculated as 4.578 with 49 degrees of freedom, resulting in a significant p-value of 0.0001. For mothers who delivered via caesarean section, the mean LATCH score for breastfeeding was 5.62, with a standard deviation of 1.53716 and a standard error mean of 0.217.The comparison indicates a statistically significant difference in the LATCH scores for breastfeeding between mothers who delivered per vaginally and those who delivered via caesarean section. It shows there is a Positive relationship between LATCH SCORE on per vaginal delivery. So the caesarean mothers need a counselling regarding the breastfeeding practices