TY - JFULL AU - N. Klinpikul and P. Srichandr and N. Poolthong and N. Thavarungkul PY - 2010/1/ TI - Factors Affecting Low Back Pain during Breastfeeding of Thai Women T2 - International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences SP - 552 EP - 556 VL - 4 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6529 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 48, 2010 N2 - Breastfeeding has been receiving much attention of late. Prolonged sitting for breastfeeding often results in back pain of the mothers. This paper reports the findings of a study on the effect of some factors, especially lumbar support, on back pain of breastfeeding mothers. The results showed that the use of lumbar support can reduce back pain of breastfeeding mothers significantly. Back pain was found to increase with breastfeeding time and the rate of increase was lower when lumbar supports were used. When lumbar support thickness was increased gradually from zero (no support) to 11 cm., the degree of low back pain decreased; rapidly at first, then slowly, and leveled off when the thickness reached 9 cm. Younger mothers were less prone to back pain than older mothers. The implications of the findings are discussed. ER -