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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 37 >> She regrets weaning her first baby to return to work but says that she will not make the same mistake again.

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 18 >> She did not consider working and breastfeeding. Giving up breastfeeding was an emotional time for her and her daughter who would not take a bottle.

Bottle fed first baby; breastfed second (6 months, enjoyable, copious milk supply) and third for six weeks (difficult, unsettled).

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 33 >> Her breasts became so full during a meeting that she had to go and express some milk. Eventually she became self-employed to give herself more flexibi

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 35-39 >> Interview 35 >> In adult intensive care, no-one thought to express her milk. One nurse/midwife held her baby to her breast. She was expected to express and cup feed b

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 01 >> She expressed every evening after her daughter had gone to bed so that she could donate breast milk to the milk bank.

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 27 >> She knew that the only thing she could do for her daughter was to provide breast milk. She learned from a book called 'Breastfeeding Special Care Babi

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 35-39 >> Interview 41 >> At first, she was so focused on her very sick baby that she omitted to take care of her milk supply. She used regular expression and medication to bri

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.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 27 >> Her daughter received milk from the milk bank so she expressed and donated to the milk bank herself which made her feel good.

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 30-34 >> Interview 27 >> She got a good breast pump for double pumping when she went back to full-time shift work, pumped at work and stored breast milk for each of her childr

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 30-34 >> Interview 36 >> She thought that buying an expensive breast pump would make her life easier. That didn't help so she tried infant formula and her son soon preferred t

Caesarean section, extended family support, thrush, early bottles of expressed breast milk and infant formula led to weaning at ten weeks. Discusses breastfeeding café and special foods.

• 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 04 >> She and her husband practised kangaroo care with their premature baby. The milk that she expressed was hard to come by and she did not like to see it

Baby 7 weeks premature, incubator and special care, 4-hourly pumping/feeding schedule, milk dried up soon after going home. Discusses mixed emotions, kangaroo care, pressure to breastfeed.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 47 >> She got “a bit panicked” about going back to work until she realised that she would be at home with her baby more than she would be at work.

Excellent help with getting breastfeeding established with first child. No problems with either. Anxious about going back to work and being separated from baby.