A study by Sloan and colleagues (20

A study by Sloan and colleagues (2006) found that the most often cited reason for breastfeeding cessation was returning to work, reported by 21 percent of the sampled women, and Arora et al. (2000) report that 29.4 percent of mothers who discontinued breastfeeding cited “couldn’t breastfeed because had to return to work” as the contributing factor, which was the third most often cited reason amongst mothers in their sample. Additionally, when mothers who had discontinued breastfeeding were asked to identify factors that would have encouraged longer breastfeeding, 80.3 percent of mothers identified “a different work situation” (Arora, McJunkin, Wehrer, & Kuhn, 2000).