Exclusive breastfeeding was more common among mothers with supportive husbands on breastfeeding compared to non-supportive husbands. In Malaysia or Asian setting, the husband plays a major role in decision making about family and household matters. Banks documented a highly paternalistic pattern of behaviour where husbands have traditionally held authority over many aspects of family life including intra-household decisions in an ethnographic study on family life in Kelantan, Malaysia [29]. A study by Kusago et al. concluded that among families in rural Malaysia, husbands were authoritative over intra-household decision-making [30].