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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 33 >> She was amazed and frustrated by how much time it took to feed her newborn baby until she realised that breastfeeding was the most important priority

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 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 50 >> Pain in her hands, wrists and pelvis was due to poor positioning. Feeding twins was a physical drain. Breastfeeding made her thinking 'fuzzy'.

Exclusively breastfeeding twins with a toddler in the house. First child almost rejected the breast at three months. Mother's comfort (cushions essential) and positioning the baby/babies at the breast important.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 37 >> She described having her first baby in a Moses basket beside her bed but subsequent babies slept in the family bed.

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 35-39 >> Interview 26 >> Having a baby brought responsibilities and a clearer distinction in roles for him. His relationship with his children has strengthened with time.

Father of three. Supportive of long-term breastfeeding and co-sleeping.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 20 >> He supported his wife in her breastfeeding and says that he can experience feeding with a bottle of expressed milk. Becoming a parent has meant accept

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 05 >> She still felt very attached to her baby which was wonderful but at the same time she wanted her body back.

Fed daughter expressed breast milk via bottle for 10 weeks until baby learned to breastfeed. Discusses pumping, mastitis, breast milk donation, weaning. Son's feeding straight forward.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 28 >> She breastfed through all four pregnancies and tandem fed her last two babies.

La Leche League Leader, long-term breastfeeder, needed to take care with latching on, engorgement, dealt with occasional blocked ducts herself, breastfed while pregnant, tandem fed baby & toddler.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 30-34 >> Interview 24 >> Her attitudes towards her breasts have changed since she has breastfed three children. She is proud of the nurturing that she was able to do with them

Ceasarean section with first baby, nipple shields, abundant milk supply, mastitis. Has breastfed toddlers and tandem fed new baby with toddler.