‘I don’t think it’s risky, but…’: pregnant women’s risk perceptions of maternal drinking and smoking

Hammer, Raphaël; Inglin, Sophie

doi:10.1080/13698575.2013.863851

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“…543-544). Hammer and Inglin (2014) in their study on pregnant women in Switzerland examined different social attitudes towards smoking and drinking during pregnancy. Smoking was widely seen as irresponsible risk-taking, while moderate drinking was rather considered a low-risk lifestyle choice and embedded in everyday culture (for example having a glass of wine with dinner).…”

Section: Stigma and Risk-takingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Towards a better understanding of risk-taking: key concepts, dimensions and perspectives

Zinn

2015

Health, Risk & Society

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The current study of risk is dominated by the risk minimisation approach that frames risk and risk-taking as something undesirable that should be avoided as much as possible. However, this approach to risk often fails to consider the broader conditions and motivations of risk-taking and to examine why people expose themselves to danger. In this editorial, I explore two key concepts -voluntary risk-taking and risk behaviour -considering the ways in which they represent opposing views in risk studies. I make the case for a broader approach to 'risk-taking' that addresses the complex tensions between risk-taking and risk aversion in the social, natural and material contexts of everyday life. I examine how risk-taking is characterised by varying degrees of control over decision-making, different mixes of motives, the impact of socio-structural factors, forms of routinisation and habitual risk-taking, how power is involved in risk-taking and how identity is used to challenge experts' views. I discuss the role of stigma in risk-taking and how general societal contexts and organisational cultures influence the risk-taking. While there is increasing research on risk-taking, there is still scope for further publications that will advance our understanding of risk-taking in its social contexts, and in this editorial, I address issues that will form the basis of a forthcoming special issue of Health, Risk & Society.

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Section: Stigma and Risk-takingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Towards a better understanding of risk-taking: key concepts, dimensions and perspectives

Zinn

2015

Health, Risk & Society

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“…Intensive mothering relies on the western value of individualism, as women are expected to raise their children independent of broader societal support and are individually responsible for the outcome (Hays, 1996). Women experience the effects of intensive mothering during or before pregnancy, as they are expected to engage in behaviours to manage risks to the foetus including abstaining from smoking and limiting alcohol consumption (Hammer & Inglin, 2014), selecting birthing environments where perceived risks of childbirth can be managed with medical technologies (Coxon, Sandall, & Fulop, 2014) and preparing the body for pregnancy pre-conception (Marshall & Woollett, 2000). Thus, embracing and implementing medicalised models of pregnancy, childbirth and childrearing is central to the risk reduction required of good mothers.…”

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“…Within the ideology of intensive mothering, the 'scientific mother' is expected to rely on scientific research to support parenting decisions; parenting choices are considered 'morally righteous' if they can be supported by scientific research, which mothers are expected to use appropriately (Apple, 1995(Apple, , 2006Faircloth, 2010Faircloth, , 2013Foss, 2010;Hammer & Inglin, 2014;Knaak, 2010). Researchers have found that that mothers do approach decisions about feeding their babies rationally; assessing risks in their decisions to breastfeed (Knaak, 2010;Lee 2007Lee , 2008 or to share milk (Gribble, 2014) or when selecting one formula over another (Afflerback, Carter, Anthony, & Grauerholz, 2013).…”

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Liquid gold or Russian roulette? Risk and human milk sharing in the US news media

Carter

Reyes‐Foster

Rogers

2015

Health, Risk & Society

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The exchange of human breast milk, a common and well-established practice, has become a site of public controversy in the US. There is controversy over the use of the internet to facilitate milk exchange and public interest in the practice has been stimulated by a research article published in the journal Pediatrics that identified high levels of potentially harmful bacteria in breast milk sold online. In this article we use feminist critical discourse analysis to critically examine how breast milk sharing is represented in a sample of 30 articles from US print newspapers published in 2010-2013. We found complex and contradictory images of human milk, with medically supervised milk banks represented as a life-saving entity, nature's 'liquid gold', whereas peer sharing of breast milk was represented as dangerous, and in this context breast milk was represented as a potentially life-threatening substance. Women who donated milk to milk banks were represented as altruistic and those who obtained their babies' milk from the milk bank were represented as responsible and acting in the best interests of their babies. In contrast women who participated in peer milk sharing were represented at best as ill-informed about the risks to babies and at worst, morally reprehensible for disregarding the risks. Mothers who fed their babies this milk were represented as irresponsible and playing 'Russian roulette' with their babies. We argue that such contradictory representations are grounded in concerns in high income countries such as the USA with the control and surveillance of the female body through discourses of risk and are based on cultural constructions of individualism and intensive mothering. IntroductionIn this article we aim to examine how breast milk sharing is portrayed in popular media in the US. We draw on feminist critical discourse analysis to analyse newspaper articles about milk sharing to identify how milk sharing is represented in contemporary news media in the US. We selected US print newspapers with the top twenty highest circulation to focus on the articles that potentially have the greatest impact in shaping public perceptions. We analyse news media rather than parenting guides as the media has a broader reach and greater potential to shape general public perceptions. We aim to explore how milk sharing is represented through news media, focusing on distinctions between peer sharing and sharing through more formal milk banks. In this article we do not examine the ways in which such representation influence the readers of such media,

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“…Where to give birth/choice of maternity site McClain (1983), Papiernik et al (1997), Viisainen (2000), Lindgren et al (2006Lindgren et al ( , 2010, Abed Saeedi et al (2013), Regan and McElroy (2013) The use of prescribed and OTC medications Koren et al (1989), Magee et al (1999), Pole et al (2000), Bonari et al (2005), Nordeng et al (2010), Sakaguchi et al (2011), Tucker Edmonds et al (2011), Walfisch et al (2011), Widnes et al (2012, Lupattelli et al (2014) Engaging in/responding to results of prenatal screening Evans et al (1993), Heyman et al (2006), Yoshino et al (2008), Barnoy et al (2009), Dearborn et al (2010), Farrell et al (2011 Response to an exposure to teratogens Koren et al (1989Koren et al ( , 1992 Making lifestyle changes Kim et al (2007), Hanghøj (2013) Smoking/alcohol/illicit drug reduction Perry et al (2003), Castrucci et al (2006), Ortendahl and Nasman (2007), Leppo (2012), Lai et al (2013), Hammer and Inglin (2014) Other decisions Hall et al (2012), Eley et al (2014), Mitchell and McClean (2014) with a history of pregnancy-induced hypertension (Spratling et al 2014). The Risk Perception Survey for Developing Diabetes was amended for use in two studies examining risk perceptions rela...…”

Section: Decision Citationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Risk perception in pregnancy: a concept analysis

Lennon

2016

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Women today know more about their developing infant than at any other time in history; however, this has not led to a sense of reassurance. Nurses and midwives have a critical role in assisting pregnant women, and their families make sense of the information they are exposed to. An understanding of the complexities of the concept of risk perception in pregnancy may assist in enabling nurses and midwives to reaffirm the normalcy of pregnancy.

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‘I don’t think it’s risky, but…’: pregnant women’s risk perceptions of maternal drinking and smoking

Cited by 57 publications

References 36 publications

Towards a better understanding of risk-taking: key concepts, dimensions and perspectives

Towards a better understanding of risk-taking: key concepts, dimensions and perspectives

Liquid gold or Russian roulette? Risk and human milk sharing in the US news media

Risk perception in pregnancy: a concept analysis

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