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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 25 >> She said that breastfeeding is not a technique, it is an experience and that professionals need to spend time listening to a woman's story but are con

Special Care separation from 1st baby emotionally difficult. Got into cycle of engorgement, expressing, mastitis, too much milk for six months. Has not expressed for second baby.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 33 >> She valued the advice and support from her family more than her health professionals, who may not have had the knowledge or the experience of breastfe

Water birth, easy breastfeeding with first child. Sleep deprivation and mastitis with second. Weaning to bottle at six months in order to go back to work.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 12 >> As a breastfeeding support worker, she was aware of unsupportive practices amongst health professionals and the impact that they had on women.

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 30-34 >> Interview 31 >> She thinks that consistent advice and continuity of care would mean one less stressful burden for women to think about around the time of their baby's

First month of breastfeeding was the hardest thing she has done in her life. Very sore and cracked nipples. Fussy babies at 4-5 months, early weaning with first baby.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 24 >> She advises health professionals to encourage women and women to find someone who they know and trust. She wishes there were more breastfeeding clinic

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 20-24 >> Interview 16 >> She said that health professionals need to believe in breastfeeding, be better trained and be more accessible to women.

Baby in Special Care, fed expressed breast milk via tube, syringe & cup. Problems at home, slow weight gain, mixed feeding. Support from lactation consultant for five months.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 31 >> As a pharmacist her training focused on infant formula but all knowledge “went out of the window” when she became a mother and she relied on her insti

First month of breastfeeding was the hardest thing she has done in her life. Very sore and cracked nipples. Fussy babies at 4-5 months, early weaning with first baby.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 22 >> Her medical training did nothing to prepare her for the practicalities of how to breastfeed or how to teach someone else to breastfeed.

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.

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Advice for pregnant women and new mothers

• >> Breastfeeding >> Advice for pregnant mothers and new mothers >> Advice for pregnant mothers and new mothers

Advice for pregnant women and new mothers

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Advice for pregnant mothers and new mothers >> Advice for pregnant mothers and new mothers

Advice for pregnant women and new mothers

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 31 >> She listened to all of the advice and then did what suited her and her baby. Sometimes she woke the baby, sometimes she let him sleep.

First month of breastfeeding was the hardest thing she has done in her life. Very sore and cracked nipples. Fussy babies at 4-5 months, early weaning with first baby.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 31 >> Her cracked and bleeding nipples were so painful that she dreaded feeding her baby. She got a lot of differing advice. Her nipples were not so bad wit

First month of breastfeeding was the hardest thing she has done in her life. Very sore and cracked nipples. Fussy babies at 4-5 months, early weaning with first baby.

• 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.