Attitudes towards human milk banking among native turkish and refugee women residing in a rural region of Turkey: a mixed-methods approach

Table 2 Women’s knowledge of and attitudes towards breastfeeding, wet nursing and human milk banking (n = 271)

		n	%
How did you feed your youngest baby in the first six months?	Only breast milk	182	67.2
	Both	82	30.3
	Only infant formula	7	2.6
Have you ever heard about wet nurses?	Yes	240	88.6
Have you ever heard about wet nurses?	No	31	11.4
Have you ever breastfed other people’s babies?	Yes	34	12.5
Have you ever breastfed other people’s babies?	No	237	87.5
Would you willing to be a wet nurse for another baby?	Yes	211	77.9
Would you willing to be a wet nurse for another baby?	No	60	22.1
Has your baby had a wet nurse?	Yes	21	7.7
Has your baby had a wet nurse?	No	250	92.3
If you don’t have enough milk, will you feed your baby with somebody else’s milk?	Yes	93	34.3
	No	177	65.3
Have you ever heard about human milk banking?	Yes	68	25.1
Have you ever heard about human milk banking?	No	203	74.9
Would you think about donating your breast milk that your baby does not need to a human milk bank?	Yes	157	57.9
	No	69	25.5
Would you get milk from a human milk bank if you did not have enough milk or if you could not breastfeed?	Yes	75	27.7
	No	196	72.3
Would you want a human milk bank founded in Turkey?	Yes	144	53.1
	No	39	14.4
	Undecided	88	32.5

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