Individual Breastfeeding Training: Mother and father candidates who applied to the pregnant outpatient clinic and met the study criteria were included in the study.

After the informed consent was signed, the socio-demographic questionnaire including obstetric history and breastfeeding history, IOWA infant nutrition attitude scale and Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale were applied to the mother and father candidates.

Group Breastfeeding Training: Mother and father candidates who applied to the pregnant outpatient clinic and met the study criteria were included in the study.

After the informed consent was signed, the socio-demographic questionnaire including obstetric history and breastfeeding history, IOWA infant nutrition attitude scale and Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale were applied to the mother and father candidates.The groups were composed of five pairs of parents.

Control Group: Mother and father candidates who applied to the pregnant outpatient clinic and met the study criteria were included in the study.After the informed consent was signed, the socio-demographic questionnaire including obstetric history and breastfeeding history, IOWA infant nutrition attitude scale and Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale were applied to the mother and father candidates. Routine procedures were applied to the mother and father candidates.

İndividual and Group Breastfeeding Education:It was taken into consideration that mothers and fathers who do not have breastfeeding experience in the antenatal period feel better in terms of their perception of the education given, and education is provided with adult education principles.Breastfeeding training slides, cloth nipple model, dummy dolls were used during the training and lecture, demonstration and application and breastfeeding training were provided.At the end of the training, they were given time to ask questions and their feedback was received.Control Group:Routine procedures in the clinic were performed for the mother and father candidates.The data of the mother and father who came to the hospital for antenatal follow-up and control were collected in four stages.

Questionnaires were prepared separately for parents in each follow-up. Breastfeeding status, nipple cracking, breastfeeding support status were evaluated in the first week, sixth week and fourth month in the mother follow-up forms.

The questionnaire to be applied during pregnancy consists of three topics and a total of 25 questions.

There are questions about the sociodemographic characteristics (10), fertility characteristics (9) and breastfeeding characteristics (6) of the mothers.

In the questionnaire to be applied in the first week after birth, there are questions about the characteristics of birth and breastfeeding (30).

In the sixth week, there is a questionnaire (18) containing questions about breastfeeding and finally a questionnaire containing questions about breastfeeding status (18) at the fourth month.

During the first week, sixth week and fourth month follow-up, fathers' breastfeeding support status was questioned.

This scale was developed by Cindy-Lee Dennis to measure breastfeeding self-efficacy and consists of 2 sub-scales and 33 items. The cronbach alpha value of the scale developed by Cindy-Lee Dennis was measured as 0.95. The validity and reliability of the breastfeeding self-efficacy scale in Turkish was made by Eksioglu. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.91 and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the "Technical" sub-dimension was 0.89. Breastfeeding self-efficacy increases as the total score increases.The lowest score is 33 and the highest score is 165. The scale was administered to mothers four times. The first application was performed before the training in antenatal period and the other applications were done in the first week, sixth week and fourth month.

Developed by De La Mora and Russell, the IIFAS was developed to assess the attitudes of mothers to breastfeeding and consists of 17 items. The cronbach's alpha value of the scale was 0.86. The validity and reliability study in our country was conducted by Eksioğlu et al. And the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated as 0.71. It is designed to estimate the time of breastfeeding as well as choice of infant feeding method.

Scale; It consists of 17 items evaluated with a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).

Nine of the items showed positive formula feeding, whereas these items were counter-rated.

The total score was between 17 and 85, and the higher the mean score of the scale, the higher the positive attitude of breastfeeding, and the lower the mean score of the scale, the higher the tendency towards formula feeding.

The scale was applied to the parents four times.