Educating breastfeeding techniques to mothers before and
after cesarean section, affects breastfeeding process in
several aspects [28, 32-33], and should be carried out based
on steps 3 & 5 in WHO ten steps1). In our study, 43.9% of
mothers had not received breastfeeding education. Two
possibilities exist; f irst, the mothers might be multipara and
experienced from their previous deliveries; or the education
policy was not executed in these hospitals and remained to be
more clarified in future studies.
Rooming-in policy (WHO step 7) was performed just for
42.1% of our cases that is very important in successful
breastfeeding 1), and hospital managers should revise their
policies