Andrée Rivard, Histoire de l’accouchement dans un Québec moderne, Montréal, Les éditions du remue-ménage, 2014, 448 p.

Bayard, Chantal

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“…Prenatal classes for parents are one of the key elements of this apparatus. According to historian Andrée Rivard (1), it was precisely through the promotion of its health education program in the 1970s that the then Ministry of Social A airs aimed to convince women and their partners that health professionals held the "right" knowledge, skills and competencies to manage their pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding (or lack thereof ) and their child's rst years of life. Initially developed by local community service centers (CLSCs), these free classes targeted the general population.…”

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A call for conscious “anti-preparation” to motherhood

Bujold,

Vallée-Ouimet

2024

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Our privileged position as doctoral students and mothers allows for a critical look at this issue that leads us to propose a form of “anti-preparation” to motherhood, in the sense that women should be called upon to deconstruct the constraining beliefs surrounding motherhood rather than accumulate new knowledge that is sometimes contradictory, often useless, and particularly anxiety-provoking. This is not a call to ignorance, but it does encourage us to temper our consumption of knowledge that can generate beliefs that erode and, above all, invisibilize women’s intrinsic strengths. While some of information surrounding motherhood is essential to know, we suggest that more attention must be devoted to empowering mothers and challenging dominant norms that ultimately don’t always serve them. In short, this plea seeks to challenge the authoritarian function of medicalized knowledge embedded in capitalist and patriarchal norms of motherhood, which work to minimize the intrinsic strengths of mothers. Our intention is not to promote an inclusive view that rests on the commercialization of motherhood, but rather an anti-oppressive approach that legitimizes both the intrinsic strengths of mothers and their facilitating beliefs, whether medicalized or tacit.

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Bujold,

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2024

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“…After more than two decades of intensive promotion, women who are still unaware that breastfeeding promotes their babies' optimal development are rare 14 . It would be almost impossible to miss the advertisements and discourses promoting breastfeeding that suggest that 'breastfeeding is the only ethically acceptable option in infant feeding' 15 .…”

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Is there room for mothers' agency in the choice to breastfeed? An analysis of mothers’s views on health messages promoting breastfeeding in Quebec

Saïas,

Mercerat,

Adamiste

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Eur J Midwifery

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INTRODUCTION This exploratory cross-sectional study focuses on the experiences of mothers regarding health messages promoting breastfeeding. The objective is to describe the content and context in which messages are conveyed. METHODS A total of 944 new mothers responded to a questionnaire (15–31 January 2021) on their perception of health messages promoting breastfeeding and their feeling of agreement towards these messages, their intention to breastfeed, incentives received, and their relationship with the professionals. Frequencies were carried out for all non-textual data and textual data were analyzed using content thematic analysis. The recruitment was made through social media and snowball effect. RESULTS Most of the respondents reported wanting to breastfeed; 91% breastfed their child, 80.8% participants agreed with the messages they received, and 67.9% of respondents strongly agreeing that breastfeeding was the best choice for their child. Moreover, the content of the messages could sometimes be judgmental and coercive, leading to emotions such as guilt. Sixty-two women also reported a lack of support when they expressed their desire or their need to feed their baby in other ways (e.g. breastmilk with bottles or formulas). CONCLUSIONS The perceived issue of breastfeeding messages was not the content itself, but the way in which information was conveyed. Failure to take mothers' difficulties into account and failure to present alternatives to breastfeeding were seen as major issues by women. This study highlights the importance of rethinking the way in which information is provided by professionals, in order to reinforce the autonomy of new mothers regarding the feeding of their child.

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Andrée Rivard, Histoire de l’accouchement dans un Québec moderne, Montréal, Les éditions du remue-ménage, 2014, 448 p.

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A call for conscious “anti-preparation” to motherhood

A call for conscious “anti-preparation” to motherhood

Is there room for mothers' agency in the choice to breastfeed? An analysis of mothers’s views on health messages promoting breastfeeding in Quebec

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