we chose to include infants with this
limited extent of artificial milk intake in the exclusively breast-fed
group as their predominant mode of feeding was breast feeding,
and our focus was not infant nutrition, but the infants' and
mothers' experience of another oral feeding method. In addition,
the diary lacked certain variables of importance for the initiation
of breast feeding, for example, the infant's use of a pacifier, data
regarding the mother's use of manual expression in addition to
using a breast-pump and socio-economic variables. However,
despite a relatively small sample, significant differences of clinical
importance emerged.
Conclusion