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• 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 30-34 >> Interview 14 >> She was getting pressure to wean her four year old but needed help with what to feed her. She was also worried about smoking and dental caries*.

Talks about "natural" birth and breastfeeding; pressure from Social Services and health professionals to conform to expected behaviours; conflicting advice, prolonged breastfeeding and the difficulties of weaning a toddler.

• 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 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> Her advice is to say that you want to breastfeed your baby and to hold onto that thought - it is an on-going learning process for you and your baby.

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 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 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> She grew up in a bottle feeding family environment but saw friends from work breastfeeding.

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 preferred to stay at home with her children as her own mother did and was dreading going back to work.

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 suggested that all health professionals should do 'Baby Friendly' training and that all women should take as much maternity leave as possible.

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 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 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 35-39 >> Interview 25 >> She thought that the best environment for breastfeeding was in a supportive community and was shocked by the advertising for infant formula in France

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 25 >> Breastfeeding was physically demanding and she was keen to begin exercising again to maintain her fitness. She was keen to reclaim her body after the

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 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 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 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 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 25-29 >> Interview 37 >> She thinks that breastfeeding her children changed attitudes within her extended family and she and her husband believe that their daughter will also

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 38 >> Few people in her area breastfeed because the knowledge has been lost. Support groups help but changes in formula advertising and company sponsorship

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 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 25-29 >> Interview 38 >> Breastfeeding did not change her figure too much but it changed the way that she thought about her figure.

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 35-39 >> Interview 41 >> Her friends were encouraging her to wean before her daughter became very ill and required surgery. Now she is glad that she continued to breastfeed.

Breastfeeding easy. Baby critically ill at 8 months, eventually underwent a heart transplant operation. Fed expressed breast milk in hospital and baby returned to breastfeeding at home.