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• 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 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 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 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.