Using motivational interviewing to explore infant feeding with new mothers

mother feeding her baby

Motivational interviewing is a client-focused approach that helps increase a person’s motivation to change by addressing their feelings about that change. It can help build trust with a new mother, reduce their feelings of guilt and shame and help them work through any feelings of ambivalence regarding how they might want to feed their child. Allowing them to make truly informed decisions about their feeding preferences.

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