Enablers and barriers to success among mothers planning to exclusively breastfeed for six months: a qualitative prospective cohort study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Health workers are key players in providing infant feeding information and support, yet some health workers give mothers infant feeding advice that is not supportive of EBF. Strategies to improve health workers' competency in infant feeding counselling are needed to better prepare pregnant women to overcome common breastfeeding challenges and build mothers' confidence and self-efficacy, thus increasing EBF rates.