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• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

• 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 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.