Abstract
ABSTRACTThis study investigates the effects of a change in WIC federal policy for low-income mothers and children at nutritional risk in southern Indiana. The policy change was meant to encourage more WIC recipients to exclusively breastfeed their infants. However, most recipients reported that the change in policy did not influence their infant feeding decisions in the way that policy makers intended. Instead, nutritional factors and difficulties with breastfeeding were more influential in participants’ decisions to exclusively breastfeed or not. Importantly, the policy change did provide nutritional and financial support to low-income mothers who had already decided to exclusively breastfeed.
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