ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2015
Making use of expertise: a qualitative analysis of the experience of breastfeeding support for first-time mothers.
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- Supporting Adolescent Mothers to Make Infant Feeding Decisions: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Experiences that influence how trained providers support women with breastfeeding: A systematic review of qualitative evidence.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- First-time mothers' experiences of receiving proactive telephone-based peer support for breastfeeding in Australia: a qualitative study.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Trial
- What is effective communication in breastfeeding care? Perspectives from Latina women.PloS one · 2025Article
- Self-conscious emotions and breastfeeding support: A focused synthesis of UK qualitative research.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Review
- A qualitative study of recorded telephone support calls with mothers of preterm infants: Expressing both positive and negative feelings.Nursing open · 2021Article
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- Commercialisation and commodification of breastfeeding: video diaries by first-time mothers.International breastfeeding journal · 2020Article
- Understanding process and context in breastfeeding support interventions: The potential of qualitative research.Maternal & child nutrition · 2017Review
- Differences in the emotional and practical experiences of exclusively breastfeeding and combination feeding mothers.Maternal & child nutrition · 2017Article
- Making use of expertise: a qualitative analysis of the experience of breastfeeding support for first-time mothers.Maternal & child nutrition · 2015Article
- "I Just Want to Do Everything Right:" Primiparous Women's Accounts of Early Breastfeeding via an App-Based Diary.Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & PractitionersArticle
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Abstract
There is now a body of research evaluating breastfeeding interventions and exploring mothers' and health professionals' views on effective and ineffective breastfeeding support. However, this literature leaves relatively unexplored a number of questions about how breastfeeding women experience and make sense of their relationships with those trained to provide breastfeeding support. The present study collected qualitative data from 22 breastfeeding first-time mothers in the United Kingdom on their experiences of, and orientation towards, relationships with maternity care professionals and other breastfeeding advisors. The data were obtained from interviews and audio-diaries at two time points during the first 5 weeks post-partum. We discuss a key theme within the data of 'Making use of expertise' and three subthemes that capture the way in which the women's orientation towards those assumed to have breastfeeding expertise varied according to whether the women (1) adopted a position of consulting experts vs. one of deferring to feeding authorities; (2) experienced difficulty interpreting their own and their baby's bodies; and (3) experienced the expertise of health workers as empowering or disempowering. Although sometimes mothers felt empowered by aligning themselves with the scientific approach and 'normalising gaze' of health care professionals, at other times this gaze could be experienced as objectifying and diminishing. The merits and limitations of a person-centred approach to breastfeeding support are discussed in relation to using breastfeeding expertise in an empowering rather than disempowering way.
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