Table 3.
Women’s reported key influencers during pregnancy and breastfeeding, overall and by country
| Key influencers during pregnancy | Malawi (N = 15) | South Africa (N = 15) | Uganda (N = 18) | Zimbabwe (N = 17) |
Fisher’s Exact p‐value |
Total (N = 65) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The father of your baby | 9 (60%) | 4 (27%) | 11 (61%) | 15 (88%) | 0.001 | 39 (60%) |
| Your mother a | 3 (20%) | 6 (40%) | 3 (17%) | 0 (0%) | 12 (18%) | |
| Your clinician | 3 (20%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (17%) | 2 (12%) | 8 (12%) | |
| Other, specify b | 0 (0%) | 3 (20%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (5%) | |
| No response | 0 (0%) | 1 (7%) | 1 (6%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (3%) | |
| No one | 0 (0%) | 1 (7%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (2%) |
| Key influencers during breastfeeding | Malawi (N = 12) | South Africa (N = 10) | Uganda (N = 15) | Zimbabwe (N = 11) |
Fisher’s Exact p‐value |
Total (N = 48) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The father of your baby | 11 (92%) | 2 (20%) | 8 (53%) | 9 (82%) | 0.007 | 30 (63%) |
| Your mother | 1 (8%) | 4 (40%) | 3 (20%) | 1 (9%) | 9 (19%) | |
| Your clinician | 0 (0%) | 2 (20%) | 4 (27%) | 0 (0%) | 6 (13%) | |
| Other, specify c | 0 (0%) | 2 (20%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (4%) | |
| No one | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (9%) | 1 (2%) |
a
Two noted mother‐in‐law;
b
aunt (2), sister (1)
c
aunt (1), sister (1).
At church they say that the head of the family is the man, so a woman may want [to use] but if the man doesn’t it cannot be possible. So, the first one to have the decision is the man. [Obama, 35, man, Blantyre]