Comparison effect of breast feeding education on knowledge and function of cesarean and normal vaginal delivery mothers

Back ground: Who underscored the importance breast feeding immediately after delivery with purpose healthy to 2010. Breastfeeding is very effective on infant's good health both mentally and physically. It prevents children from dying of malnutrition and reduces respiratory infection and diarrhea. Thus mothers who breast feeding lower their risk for breast cancer, ovarian cancer, etc. So we decided to comparer effect of breast feeding education classes on knowledge and function in NVD and c/s mothers. Method & Material: This research is a quasi- experimental study and the samples include 420 mothers of primary gravida who have admitted in the Boo-Ali hospital. They had two education classes in pregnancy. Midwife visited them after delivery and examination of them function also they completed questionnaires. Then data processing with spss. Findings of this study indicated education program of breast feeding has been effective on knowledge of mothers but function of mothers with vaginal delivery better than Cesarean section (p<0/05). Based on the finding of this study, continuous education of breast feeding in duration of pregnancy has been highly effected on the mother's knowledge in both group of (NVD & c/s). But function of c/s group was poor because they had pain and unable preformed correctly.