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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 33 >> Her exhaustion affected her milk supply. She needed to call on family support and slow down. She said that breastfeeding was physical but also psychol

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 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 25-29 >> Interview 12 >> She lived with her parents-in-law at first. Her husband and her extended family were very supportive of her breastfeeding. She did not feed in front o

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 46 >> She stayed with her mother after the birth of her first baby. Her extended family helped out when she had the other children.

Breastfed five children without problems, two of them in tandem for a short time. Very proud of her achievements. Breastfeeding peer supporter for her local community.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 20-24 >> Interview 43 >> She stayed with her mother-in law for forty days after her son's birth and received many visitors. She was lonely at first when she returned to her ow

Breastfed without problem. Stayed with mother-in-law for 40 days after birth. Sore nipples & breasts, mother-in-law massaged with oil.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 15-19 >> Interview 40 >> Her extended family did not approve of her breastfeeding and thought that it was why her baby was unsettled. However, her boyfriend was very supportiv

Baby had jaundice and lost weight at first, needed to be woken 2-3 hourly to feed. Engorgement, sore nipples in first two weeks. Dummy for comfort sucking.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 31 >> With only a fourteen month gap, her older child was very distressed by the arrival of his baby brother.

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.