A study of working mothers found th

A study of working mothers found that of mothers with coworkers supportive of breastfeeding, 94 percent were almost exclusively breastfeeding at 6 months; whereMany community organizations have also recognized the impact that peers have on breastfeeding initiation and duration and have formed breastfeeding peer counseling and support groups available to mothers. Gross and colleagues (2009) examined the effect that peer counseling has on breastfeeding initiation, and found that mothers who participate in peer counseling are almost 1.5 times more likely to initiate breastfeeding than mothers who are not exposed to peer counseling. Another study investigated the impact of peer support groups onblack mother’s intentions to breastfeed, and found that mothers who attended the support groupswere more than twice as likely to intend to breastfeed when compared to women that did notattend (Mickens, Modeste, Montgomery, & Taylor, 2009). as of mothers with unsupportive coworkers, 63 percent were partially breastfeeding, and 69 percent were not breastfeeding at 6 months (Dabritz, Hinton & Babb, 2009).