Health Professionals’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Breastfeeding

Radzyminski, Sharon; Callister, Lynn Clark

doi:10.1891/1058-1243.24.2.102

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“…Many times nurses feel that if a mother has made the decision to formula-feed, then it is too late or not the nurse's position to change the mother's mind. 8 When in fact, the immediate and early postpartum period is an ideal time for discussing apprehensions to breastfeeding. Instead of simply asking, "Are you breastor formula-feeding?"…”

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“…Nurses who are successful with using this type of open communications do so while not placing guilt or blame on mothers who have opted out of breastfeeding. 8 Women who verbalize that they want to both breast-feed and formula-feed also present an opportunity for education about the supply and demand nature of breast-feeding. Early formula supplementation can jeopardize the establishment of the breast milk supply.…”

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“…Mothers then discontinue breast-feeding because of insufficient milk. 9 Education to delay supplementation and reassurance that the baby taking formula will eventually be possible may help establish a good milk supply sooner. Nurses have an obligation to guide mothers and families in infant feeding decision making in a manner that unearths all of the underlying barriers and issues.…”

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“…Poor breast-feeding experiences in hospital have been shown to lead to premature formula supplementation or breast-feeding cessation among African American mothers. 8,9,12 The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative set the standard on breast-feeding policies. 13 This program acknowledges hospitals and birth centers that have integrated practices and policies affording an environment for successful breast-feeding initiation.…”

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Perinatal Nurses

Robinson

2016

Journal of Perinatal &Amp; Neonatal Nursing

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“…There is then also little understanding of how a mother might safely and effectively wean off the use of an at-breast supplementer, while continuing breastfeeding if she desires, if and when this becomes an option 23 . A current (and historical) lack of universal access to accurate lactation information, and inconsistency in health professional education and subsequent advice around breastfeeding, interacts with and compounds this implied and overt discouragement (de Almeida, Luz, & Ued, 2015;Flaherman, Hicks, Cabana, & Lee, 2012;Heinig et al, 2009;Radzyminski & Callister, 2015;Rosin & Zakarija-Grković, 2016;Thorley, 2012c;Ward & Byrne, 2011).…”

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Becoming-(breastfeeding-)woman: women’s body practices and experiences at the intersection of breastfeeding, milk insufficiency, and milk sharing

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The breastfeeding body is a site of complex, contested, and conspicuously moralised practices that has long been a focus for research in the social sciences through to the arts and humanities. Often too the maternal, lactating body is situated within a biomedical frame that marks the milk-producing body as problematic, failing, and subject to and object of expert knowledges. In this frame, women who identify as producing "not enough milk" to feed their babies have been a significant focus.Despite this extensive attention, however, there is little research that has explored women's experiences of and body practices enacted in relation to continued breastfeeding alongside ongoing milk insufficiency, nor the act of milk sharing as a specific response to this bodily insufficiency.In this thesis, I describe and discuss my research with 13 women who have faced difficulties in breastfeeding based on a shared experience of 'chronic milk insufficiency'. I also focus on the act of milk sharing as one response to this insufficiency. Through analysis and discussion of in-depth interviews and observation, I explore how women enact and experience body practices at the intersection of breastfeeding, milk insufficiency, and milk sharing.My critical exploration of breastfeeding, milk insufficiency, and milk sharing as interrelated body practices and modes of meaning-making is informed by, and also informs, the use of a conceptual frame developed through articulation with corporeal and post-constructionist feminism, and ideas from Deleuze and Guattari's work such as deterritorialisation, complex assemblages, flows, desire, and (inter)corporeality. I employ this rhizomatic, cyborg conceptual frame to analyse women's body practices with reference to a number of Deleuzo-Guattarian thematic strands including expectations and beginnings, incorporation and avoidance, the fragmenting body and complex assemblages, creative corporeality and body extension, and becoming-(breastfeeding-)woman.In situating embodied knowledge relative to creative body practices, and highlighting the spaces between bodies and the tension between normative and resistive body practices, I disarticulate and reterritorialise a range of ideas about maternal, lactating bodies. Taken together, these support the conceptualisation of continued breastfeeding in the context of ongoing insufficient milk as a creative, resistant (inter)corporeal act. I further discuss this creative (inter)corporeality in terms of its pragmatic and conceptual implications for anthropologists and social scientists more broadly, as well as for health professionals and others working with pregnant and breastfeeding women.ii Declaration by authorThis thesis is composed of my original work, and contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference has been made in the text. I have clearly stated the contribution by others to jointly-authored works that I have included in my thesis.

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