Abstract
Objective
The purpose of this study was to clarify the feature of involvement of their mothers for primiparous women of less than two weeks of confinement about the breast-feeding by the participating observation and interview of primiparous women and their mothers in outpatient breastfeeding.
Study selection and Methods
The sample for this research consisted of 10 sets of primiparous women and their mothers who attended breast feeding visitor consultation together. The data were collected from February through July. The methods of research used were observation and interviews. The Interview Questions were 'daily child-rearing after leaving the hospital related to breast-feeding', 'the state of the daughter fromher mothers' viewpoint, etc. Observation of the study participants and all interviews were taped and transcribed and used as data. The transcribed data was adjusted into short sentences for analysis. After all this work compiling data, sub-patterns and the patterns were looked for and found which explained the nature and features of the relationship of primiparous women with their mothers.
Results
Two relationship patterns were found that were characteristic of the relationship. One is [individual relationship pattern] which consisted of sub-patterns such as [receptivity], [supportive], [educational]. The other one was [intergenerational tradition relationship pattern] which consisted of sub-patterns such as [handed down experience from old times about food] ,[traditional approaches to child caring]. The individual relationship pattern of could be said as personal, because those are the mother's feeling, such as perspective, a sense of values, etc. The other Intergenerational tradition relationship pattern was beyond the personal one, because it contained traditional customs which are transferred to the next generation as part of the propagation of these customs in the family. Moreover, there were two types within these interactions; one being a supportive affirmative of the relationship such as watching, receptivity, and the other one is an authoritarian attitude which already has been reported in a previous study.
In the background, it was considered that there was mothers' wish to want to let my daughter do the breast-feeding that was not possible to oneself.
Conclusion
The Features of the nature of the relationships between primiparous women and their mothers related to breastfeeding suggests that there is an [individual relationship pattern] and an [intergenerational traditional relationship pattern].
