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Breastfeeding and working

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Breastfeeding and working

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Breastfeeding and working

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• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 25-29 >> Interview 38 >> She loved being a mum so much that she delayed her return to work for as long as she could.

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 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 35-39 >> Interview 42 >> She wanted her daughter to gradually get used to a bottle before she returned to work.

Difficult birth, engorgement, sore nipples, used nipples shields, unsettled baby required walking, rocking and massage, expressed breast milk for many months, talks about going back to work.

• Pregnancy & children >> Breastfeeding >> Age 35-39 >> Interview 08 >> Her first baby was born in the Middle East. She talks about the support that Omani women received from their extended family and how different it was

Struggled to feed first baby, feeling very isolated in the Middle East. Second baby easier, fed through gastroenteritis infection. Both babies had short time in Special Care.

• 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 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 35-39 >> Interview 17 >> Her twelve month old baby is having solid food and wants to feed less often so she thinks that will fit in well with her return to work.

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 17 >> She preferred to stay at home with her children as her own mother did and was dreading going back to work.

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 45 >> She went back to part-time work and left expressed breast milk for her son. It was easy for him but hard for her.

Loves breastfeeding despite painful beginning. Used nipple shields. Hates being separated from her baby. Feeding time is family time. Husband works away from home during week.

• 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 27 >> She exercised her right to express breast milk and work and then attempted to change company policy so that other women could do the same.

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 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.