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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 24 >> She was relaxed about weaning but does feel a bit guilty about weaning her first baby to get her periods back so that she could get pregnant again.

Ceasarean section with first baby, nipple shields, abundant milk supply, mastitis. Has breastfed toddlers and tandem fed new baby with toddler.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 12 >> She knew that if she was breastfeeding continuously she would not get pregnant. She was told that the oral contraceptive pill would not affect her bre

Breastfeeding wonderful, easy. Demand fed even when baby was in an incubator after becoming jaundiced. Encourages other women in her role as breastfeeding support worker. Breastfed through Ramadan.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 34 >> Her periods returned early after her son's birth but she has not conceived. She gets irritable with breastfeeding around the time of her period.

Caesarean section, daughter in special care, thrush, continued to breastfeed because the baby had an infection. Long-term breastfeeding with her son also.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 07 >> She wondered if she could become pregnant while breastfeeding and, if she did, what effect continued breastfeeding would have on the pregnancy.

Attended antenatal classes, enjoying demand breastfeeding which has been convenient and easy apart from one bout of mastitis. Pregnant again and thinking about weaning at one year.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 15-19 >> Interview 32 >> She started taking the pill that is compatible with breastfeeding when her baby was three weeks old because she didn't trust the contraceptive effect

Really enjoying child-led breastfeeding. Supportive partner, family and friends. "Give it a go to see if it works for you" she says. Slight engorgement, copious milk supply.

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Breastfeeding an older baby

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Breastfeeding an older baby

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Breastfeeding an older baby

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Breastfeeding and working

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Breastfeeding and working

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Breastfeeding and working

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Breastfeeding away from home

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Breastfeeding away from home

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We interviewed 49 women and 2 men about their experiences of breastfeeding. Select from the key topics below, choose from the full list of topics, or explore all the interviews.

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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Breastfeeding

Publication date:  May 2007                  

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We interviewed 49 women and 2 men about their experiences of breastfeeding. Select from the key topics below, choose from the full list of topics, or explore all the interviews.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 48 >> Conflicting advice in a busy ward confused this woman and made her anxious until she received help from someone from a breastfeeding clinic in whose e

Apprehensive at first about not feeding straight after the birth and then positioning baby at the breast. No problems thereafter. Managing gradual weaning.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 22 >> She received variable advice from a variety of health professionals and doubted her ability as a mother until she attended a lactation clinic for expe

Difficulty with latch-on; poor weight gain; mixed breastfeeding and bottle feeding (expressed breast milk and formula); baby on regular 6 feeds during the day.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 22 >> Her baby's weight gain slowed so she gave her top ups of expressed milk and infant formula. She used Domperidone* to improve her milk supply.

Difficulty with latch-on; poor weight gain; mixed breastfeeding and bottle feeding (expressed breast milk and formula); baby on regular 6 feeds during the day.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 50 >> Her baby suddenly refused to breastfeed when they were on holiday. She received help from a breastfeeding clinic but was worried by the term breast re

Exclusively breastfeeding twins with a toddler in the house. First child almost rejected the breast at three months. Mother's comfort (cushions essential) and positioning the baby/babies at the breast important.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> After her caesarean section, the midwives showed her lots of different positions but that confused her. She didn't understand a good attachment and vi

Difficulties with breastfeeding including positioning, sore nipples (used nipple shields), low milk supply, poor weight gain, possible depression. Having nightmares about going back to work.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> After her caesarean section, the midwives showed her lots of different positions but that confused her. She didn't understand a good attachment and vi

Difficulties with breastfeeding including positioning, sore nipples (used nipple shields), low milk supply, poor weight gain, possible depression. Having nightmares about going back to work.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> She did not have the birth that she had planned and found breastfeeding difficult. She thinks that these things may have led to feeling depressed and

Difficulties with breastfeeding including positioning, sore nipples (used nipple shields), low milk supply, poor weight gain, possible depression. Having nightmares about going back to work.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 35 >> Her daughter's weaning was very flexible but she felt that their whole relationship had changed and struggled for a few months to come to terms with i

Pre-eclamptic fit, caesarean section, breastfed in intensive care and later in coronary care (heart failure/post partum cardiomyopathy). Determined breastfeeder. Peer counsellor and breastfeeding programme administrator.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> Her baby failed to thrive so she tried extra breastfeeds, expressing breast milk and medication to improve her milk supply.

Difficulties with breastfeeding including positioning, sore nipples (used nipple shields), low milk supply, poor weight gain, possible depression. Having nightmares about going back to work.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 37 >> She began to question herself and her milk supply when her baby gained weight slowly and got help from a breastfeeding counsellor and reassurance from

Unsatisfactory hospital experience with first baby; other two were home births. Regrets stopping breastfeeding her first child to go back to work. She didn't do that again.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 20 >> He thinks that bottle feeding became so ingrained that people forgot how to breastfeed and the breast became a sexual symbol only instead of also the

Two bottle fed and two breastfed children. Closely involved in baby care, supportive of breastfeeding. Difficulties with an unsettled baby who was eventually diagnosed as dairy intolerant.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 20-24 >> Interview 15 >> Feeding her hungry child is more important to her than her image. She has felt discriminated against and thinks that this is off-putting for other you

Bad hospital experiences. Copious milk supply, leaking, engorgement, solids at four months followed by breast refusal and early weaning. Now a peer supporter for other breastfeeding women.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 23 >> She would not sun bathe topless but breastfeeding in public has been no problem except for one time when she had disapproving looks from a family seat

Good milk supply, used nipple shields with first baby, introduced hungry baby formula for last feed at night. Second baby exclusively breastfed, just beginning solids.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 22 >> She used expressed breastmilk in a bottle when feeding in places where she or other people may have felt uncomfortable. She did not breastfeed in fron

Difficulty with latch-on; poor weight gain; mixed breastfeeding and bottle feeding (expressed breast milk and formula); baby on regular 6 feeds during the day.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 05 >> She was annoyed about the early introduction of infant formula which impacted upon her breastfeeding experience.

Fed daughter expressed breast milk via bottle for 10 weeks until baby learned to breastfeed. Discusses pumping, mastitis, breast milk donation, weaning. Son's feeding straight forward.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> She avoids public toilets and always goes to a mother and baby room but sometimes the furniture is not appropriate and there can be tension between br

Difficulties with breastfeeding including positioning, sore nipples (used nipple shields), low milk supply, poor weight gain, possible depression. Having nightmares about going back to work.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 15-19 >> Interview 32 >> Her breastfeeding experience changed her attitude towards her breasts which she no longer sees as purely sexual. She thinks that these attitudes affec

Really enjoying child-led breastfeeding. Supportive partner, family and friends. "Give it a go to see if it works for you" she says. Slight engorgement, copious milk supply.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 38 >> The irony of being asked to move to a changing room when she was breastfeeding next to a super-cleavage push-up bra in a lingerie department was not l

Breastfed - almost exclusively, only just beginning solid food at one year. Sleepy baby with jaundice, occasional blocked duct. Baby shares mother's bed. Support group important.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 49 >> She discussed unhelpful attitudes towards breastfeeding and some ways of encouraging and supporting women from disadvantaged areas.

Caesarean section, cracked nipples, blocked ducts and mastitis. Breastfed exclusively for 26 weeks before introducing finger foods. Trying to cut out night feeds.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 30 >> When she looked back, “proud” was the word that she used to describe how she felt about her breastfeeding experience.

Enjoyed breastfeeding, few difficulties, support network extremely important to her especially family, friends and the breastfeeding support group, La Leche League.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 15-19 >> Interview 40 >> Her extended family did not approve of her breastfeeding and thought that it was why her baby was unsettled. However, her boyfriend was very supportiv

Baby had jaundice and lost weight at first, needed to be woken 2-3 hourly to feed. Engorgement, sore nipples in first two weeks. Dummy for comfort sucking.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 28 >> She breastfed through all four pregnancies and tandem fed her last two babies.

La Leche League Leader, long-term breastfeeder, needed to take care with latching on, engorgement, dealt with occasional blocked ducts herself, breastfed while pregnant, tandem fed baby & toddler.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 46 >> Her first baby was only one year old when her second was born. She fed them both together for a while. The older child relieved the engorgement after

Breastfed five children without problems, two of them in tandem for a short time. Very proud of her achievements. Breastfeeding peer supporter for her local community.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 46 >> She had trouble convincing hospital staff that she did not wish to 'dry up' her milk because she was still feeding an older baby.

Breastfed five children without problems, two of them in tandem for a short time. Very proud of her achievements. Breastfeeding peer supporter for her local community.

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Breastfeeding during the night

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Breastfeeding during the night

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Breastfeeding during the night

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 20 >> He thinks that bottle feeding became so ingrained that people forgot how to breastfeed and the breast became a sexual symbol only instead of also the

Two bottle fed and two breastfed children. Closely involved in baby care, supportive of breastfeeding. Difficulties with an unsettled baby who was eventually diagnosed as dairy intolerant.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 01 >> Going out was hard until she found places to breastfeed. Now she is annoyed by newspaper reports about breastfeeding women being asked to leave premis

Long labour, emergency caesarean section. Cracked nipples. Baby fed constantly but failed to thrive. Discusses chiropractic sessions, supplemental bottles, early solids, and milk donation. Now enjoying breastfeeding.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 30 >> She practised breastfeeding techniques in front of a mirror to make sure that she was comfortable before feeding in public because other people's opin

Enjoyed breastfeeding, few difficulties, support network extremely important to her especially family, friends and the breastfeeding support group, La Leche League.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> She avoids public toilets and always goes to a mother and baby room but sometimes the furniture is not appropriate and there can be tension between br

Difficulties with breastfeeding including positioning, sore nipples (used nipple shields), low milk supply, poor weight gain, possible depression. Having nightmares about going back to work.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 37 >> She has grown more confident about breastfeeding in public with each baby and has had only positive comments.

Unsatisfactory hospital experience with first baby; other two were home births. Regrets stopping breastfeeding her first child to go back to work. She didn't do that again.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 27 >> She talks about breastfeeding on an international aeroplane and how it helped her baby to cope with changes in cabin pressure and “popping ears”.

Nursing strikes with her son. Daughter required heart surgery after birth. Expressed breastmilk for her and also provided some for the milk bank. Working and breastfeeding.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 22 >> She used expressed breastmilk in a bottle when feeding in places where she or other people may have felt uncomfortable. She did not breastfeed in fron

Difficulty with latch-on; poor weight gain; mixed breastfeeding and bottle feeding (expressed breast milk and formula); baby on regular 6 feeds during the day.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 23 >> She would not sun bathe topless but breastfeeding in public has been no problem except for one time when she had disapproving looks from a family seat

Good milk supply, used nipple shields with first baby, introduced hungry baby formula for last feed at night. Second baby exclusively breastfed, just beginning solids.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 20-24 >> Interview 15 >> Feeding her hungry child is more important to her than her image. She has felt discriminated against and thinks that this is off-putting for other you

Bad hospital experiences. Copious milk supply, leaking, engorgement, solids at four months followed by breast refusal and early weaning. Now a peer supporter for other breastfeeding women.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 38 >> The irony of being asked to move to a changing room when she was breastfeeding next to a super-cleavage push-up bra in a lingerie department was not l

Breastfed - almost exclusively, only just beginning solid food at one year. Sleepy baby with jaundice, occasional blocked duct. Baby shares mother's bed. Support group important.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 15-19 >> Interview 32 >> Her breastfeeding experience changed her attitude towards her breasts which she no longer sees as purely sexual. She thinks that these attitudes affec

Really enjoying child-led breastfeeding. Supportive partner, family and friends. "Give it a go to see if it works for you" she says. Slight engorgement, copious milk supply.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 35 >> For her own comfort she discouraged her toddler from wanting to breastfeed in public.

Pre-eclamptic fit, caesarean section, breastfed in intensive care and later in coronary care (heart failure/post partum cardiomyopathy). Determined breastfeeder. Peer counsellor and breastfeeding programme administrator.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 29 >> Although she is westernised, she talked about Thai traditions and how they differed from breastfeeding practices in the UK.

One son (mixed feeding) born in Thailand, one (exclusive breastfeeding) in Britain. Very different health systems and support. Positioning problems, crying babies. Learned by observing other women.

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Breastfeeding more than one baby

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Breastfeeding more than one baby

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Breastfeeding more than one baby >> Breastfeeding more than one baby

Breastfeeding more than one baby

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Publication date:  May 2007                  

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We interviewed 49 women and 2 men about their experiences of breastfeeding. Select from the key topics below, choose from the full list of topics, or explore all the interviews.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Breastfeeding

Publication date:  May 2007                  

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We interviewed 49 women and 2 men about their experiences of breastfeeding. Select from the key topics below, choose from the full list of topics, or explore all the interviews.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Breastfeeding

Publication date:  May 2007                  

Last updated: November 2011

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We interviewed 49 women and 2 men about their experiences of breastfeeding. Select from the key topics below, choose from the full list of topics, or explore all the interviews.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 07 >> She wondered if she could become pregnant while breastfeeding and, if she did, what effect continued breastfeeding would have on the pregnancy.

Attended antenatal classes, enjoying demand breastfeeding which has been convenient and easy apart from one bout of mastitis. Pregnant again and thinking about weaning at one year.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 07 >> She wondered if she could become pregnant while breastfeeding and, if she did, what effect continued breastfeeding would have on the pregnancy.

Attended antenatal classes, enjoying demand breastfeeding which has been convenient and easy apart from one bout of mastitis. Pregnant again and thinking about weaning at one year.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 34 >> Her periods returned early after her son's birth but she has not conceived. She gets irritable with breastfeeding around the time of her period.

Caesarean section, daughter in special care, thrush, continued to breastfeed because the baby had an infection. Long-term breastfeeding with her son also.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 12 >> She knew that if she was breastfeeding continuously she would not get pregnant. She was told that the oral contraceptive pill would not affect her bre

Breastfeeding wonderful, easy. Demand fed even when baby was in an incubator after becoming jaundiced. Encourages other women in her role as breastfeeding support worker. Breastfed through Ramadan.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 15-19 >> Interview 32 >> She started taking the pill that is compatible with breastfeeding when her baby was three weeks old because she didn't trust the contraceptive effect

Really enjoying child-led breastfeeding. Supportive partner, family and friends. "Give it a go to see if it works for you" she says. Slight engorgement, copious milk supply.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 24 >> She was relaxed about weaning but does feel a bit guilty about weaning her first baby to get her periods back so that she could get pregnant again.

Ceasarean section with first baby, nipple shields, abundant milk supply, mastitis. Has breastfed toddlers and tandem fed new baby with toddler.

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Cultural aspects of breastfeeding

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Cultural aspects of breastfeeding

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Cultural aspects of breastfeeding

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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Breastfeeding

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Emotional and psychological aspects of breastfeeding

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Emotional and psychological aspects of breastfeeding

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Emotional and psychological aspects of breastfeeding

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 49 >> Her baby's weight gain slowed at about four months of age which she thinks is typical of exclusively breastfed babies.

Caesarean section, cracked nipples, blocked ducts and mastitis. Breastfed exclusively for 26 weeks before introducing finger foods. Trying to cut out night feeds.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Breastfeeding

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We interviewed 49 women and 2 men about their experiences of breastfeeding. Select from the key topics below, choose from the full list of topics, or explore all the interviews.

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Impact of breastfeeding upon the mother

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Impact of breastfeeding upon the mother

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Impact of breastfeeding upon the mother

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Gathering information, making the decision & preparing for breastfeeding

• >> Breastfeeding >> Gathering information, making the decision & preparing for breastfeeding >> Gathering information, making the decision & preparing for breastfeeding

 

Gathering information, making the decision & preparing for breastfeeding

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Gathering information, making the decision & preparing for breastfeeding >> Gathering information, making the decision & preparing for breastfeeding

 

Gathering information, making the decision & preparing for breastfeeding

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Previous awareness of breastfeeding

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Previous awareness of breastfeeding

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Previous awareness of breastfeeding >> Previous awareness of breastfeeding

Previous awareness of breastfeeding

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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Breastfeeding

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Getting support for breastfeeding

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Getting support for breastfeeding

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Getting support for breastfeeding

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The sensation of breastfeeding

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The sensation of breastfeeding

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The sensation of breastfeeding

• >> Breastfeeding >> Thinking about the wider breastfeeding environment >> Thinking about the wider breastfeeding environment

 

Thinking about the wider breastfeeding environment

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Thinking about the wider breastfeeding environment

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Thinking about the wider breastfeeding environment >> Thinking about the wider breastfeeding environment

 

Thinking about the wider breastfeeding environment

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 50 >> Her baby suddenly refused to breastfeed when they were on holiday. She received help from a breastfeeding clinic but was worried by the term breast re

Exclusively breastfeeding twins with a toddler in the house. First child almost rejected the breast at three months. Mother's comfort (cushions essential) and positioning the baby/babies at the breast important.

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Variations of the breastfeeding experience

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Variations of the breastfeeding experience

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Variations of the breastfeeding experience >> Variations of the breastfeeding experience

Variations of the breastfeeding experience