Effects of Mothers' Breastfeeding, Nutrition and Physical Activities on Body Mass Index in the First Three Months of Lactation
Year 2022, Issue: 41, 331 - 335, 30.11.2022
Merve KAHRAMAN
Sabiha Zeynep Aydenk KÖSEOĞLU
https://doi.org/10.31590/ejosat.1115655
Abstract
Lactation is the period of breastfeeding in which the mammary glands develop and mature with the hormones produced during pregnancy and milk is secreted. Breastfeeding is an important process that brings many benefits for the baby and mother. As long as the mother continues to breastfeed, pays attention to her nutrition and exercises, her body mass index (BMI) decreases along with weight loss. This study aimed to examine the breastfeeding, nutrition and physical activity status of mothers. 26 women in the third month of lactation were included in the study, and the study was analyzed online due to the pandemic. When the correlation between breastfeeding duration and BMI values was examined, no statistically significant result was found (p>0.05). However, when the direction of the effect of breastfeeding frequency on BMI is examined; A statistically significant result was found (p<0.05). While no significant result was found when looking at the relationship between the number of daily meals and BMI changes three months after birth (p>0.05), a moderate negative correlation was observed between the frequency of consumption of dried fruit in snacks and BMI three months after birth in the same period. When the BMI value and exercise frequency three months after birth were analyzed, there was borderline significance at the p value (0.05
Keywords: Body Mass Index, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Lactation