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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 01 >> She thinks that her badly damaged nipples were the result of a difficult birth for her baby. Nipple shields, chiropractic manipulation, and cream help

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 >> 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 25-29 >> Interview 10 >> She used nipple shields to help her babies attach to her inverted nipples. They didn't affect her milk supply but they may have made her baby windy.

Little help from midwives in hospital. Used nipple shields for inverted nipples, affected milk supply. Postnatal depression with one child. Dairy intolerance with another. Practices attachment parenting.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 23 >> She thought she would feed her second baby with ease but she had to learn to position her new baby correctly all over again. She was surprised by the

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 >> She developed sore nipples from not having her baby correctly positioned. She learned by observing and copying other women and the pain went away.

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.