reviewed instruments used to assess breast feeding in the early postpartum period that have been used to identify women at greatest risk of early breast feeding cessation. Many of the instruments were long and complicated to score; some were based on particular theoretical frameworks, on qualitative studies or derived from clinical care. She concluded that none of the questionnaires proved to be easy to use in the postpartum period to predict accurately which women needed breast feeding support and follow-up or to predict which women would stop breast feeding.