Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Enhancing Breastfeeding Initiation, Exclusivity, and Duration: Effects of Prenatal Lactation-Focused Motivational Interviewing
Brief Summary: Breastfeeding is good for the health of both mother and baby, but many women do not breastfeed, or do not breastfeed for as long as they would like. The purpose of this study is to compare two types of interventions on how they impact breastfeeding. The interventions will be given during the third trimester of pregnancy, and the intervention is individual (i.e., one therapist and one participant). The first intervention is Motivational Interviewing, a type of counseling. The second intervention, or "control group," is education on how babies grow and develop. There general aims of this study are to compare women in the Motivational Interviewing group and control group on how they plan to feed their babies, how much they learn about and their opinions about breastfeeding, and how much they learn about how babies grow and develop. In addition, the groups will be compared as to whether they start breastfeeding, and how they are feeding their baby when the baby is one month old.