Diagnostic Division: Food/Fluid

Definition: Break in the continuity of the breastfeeding process as a result of inability or inadvisability to put a baby to breast for feeding.

RELATED FACTORS
Maternal/infant illness; Prematurity; Maternal employment; Contraindications to breastfeeding [e.g., drugs, true breast milk jaundice]; Need to abruptly wean infant

DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS

Subjective
Infant receives no nourishment at the breast for some or all of feedings; Maternal desire to maintain breastfeeding for infant/child’s nutritional needs; Lack of knowledge regarding expression/storage of breast milk

Objective
Separation of mother and infant