Table 4.

Induced themes regarding perinatal support from public and private hospitals

Themes	Categories	Frequency (n)
Public hospitals
Inadequate breastfeeding support in SCBUs and NICUs	Visiting, milk expressing, breastfeeding, and bottle-feeding policies were unclear or poorly communicated	17
	Visiting hours and number of visitors were limited
Private hospitals
Inadequate breastfeeding knowledge of staff	Nurses inappropriately recommended formula feeding as first-line solution for all breastfeeding issues	7
	Midwives or nurses offered conflicting and incomprehensive breastfeeding advice
Poor rooming-in practice	Infants were unnecessarily separated from mothers due to non-medical reasons	3

NICU neonatal intensive care units, SCBU special care baby unit