ReviewMaternal & child nutrition2022
Self-conscious emotions and breastfeeding support: A focused synthesis of UK qualitative research.
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- Peer Support and Community Interventions Targeting Breastfeeding in the UK: Systematic Review of Qualitative Evidence to Identify Inequities in Participants' Experiences.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Breastfeeding interventions for preventing postpartum depression.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Factors that influence women's engagement with breastfeeding support: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Desired but Unattained Breastfeeding: A Qualitative Exploration of Maternal Perceptions in a Cultural-Religious Context.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Toward Authentic Resources Among Mothers: Impact of Cyberchondria on Maternal Self-Efficacy and Breastfeeding Competency.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Loss aversion and the limits of breastfeeding promotion: a behavioral policy perspective.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Article
- Understanding the Interaction Between Infant Feeding and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being in Women who Experience Psychological Birth Trauma: A Scoping Review Protocol.HRB open research · 2026Article
- Social support perceived by breastfeeding mothers and its impacts on breastfeeding.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2026Article
- Breastfeeding difficulties and maternal-infant bonding at three months postpartum in a Turkish cohort.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Investigation of factors associated with mindful breastfeeding in breastfeeding women through structural equation modeling.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- When Your Body Tells You to Not Breastfeed-The Connivance of Oxytocin, Prolactin, and Dopamine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Employed Caregivers' Perceptions of Environmental Influences in Residential Dementia Care: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Review
- Infant feeding for women with an eating disorder: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- From Breastfeeding to Support in Mothers' Feeding Choices: A Key Role in the Prevention of Postpartum Depression?Nutrients · 2024Review
- Breastfeeding mother's experiences with breastfeeding counselling: a qualitative study.International breastfeeding journal · 2024Article
- Experiences of breastfeeding peer counseling among women with low incomes in the US: a qualitative evaluation.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Psychosocial predictors of post-natal anxiety and depression: Using Structural Equation Modelling to investigate the relationship between pressure to breastfeed, health care professional support, post-natal guilt and shame, and post-natal anxiety and depression within an infant feeding context.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- "Work with us… to make it more accessible". What women with intellectual disabilities want from infant-feeding health resources: an exploratory study.International breastfeeding journal · 2023Review
- Self-conscious emotions and breastfeeding support: A focused synthesis of UK qualitative research.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Review
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Abstract
Research on women's experiences of infant feeding and related moral discourse suggests that self-conscious emotions may be highly relevant to breastfeeding support interactions. However, the emotional impact of receiving support has not been fully explored. The aim of this review is to re-examine qualitative UK research on receiving breastfeeding support, in order to explore the role of self-conscious emotions and related appraisals in interactions with professional and peer supporters. From 2007 to 2020, 34 studies met criteria for inclusion. Using template analysis to identify findings relevant to self-conscious emotions, we focused on shame, guilt, embarrassment, humiliation and pride. Because of cultural aversion to direct discussion of self-conscious emotions, the template also identified thoughts about self-evaluation, perceptions of judgement and sense of exposure. Self-conscious emotions were explicitly mentioned in 25 papers, and related concerns were noted in all papers. Through thematic synthesis, three themes were identified, which suggested that (i) breastfeeding 'support' could present challenges to mothering identity and hence to emotional well-being; (ii) many women managed interactions in order to avoid or minimise uncomfortable self-conscious emotions; and (iii) those providing support for breastfeeding could facilitate women's emotion work by validating their mothering, or undermine this by invalidation, contributing to feelings of embarrassment, guilt or humiliation. Those supporting breastfeeding need good emotional 'antennae' if they are to ensure they also support transition to motherhood. This is the first study explicitly examining self-conscious emotions in breastfeeding support, and further research is needed to explore the emotional nuances of women's interactions with supporters.
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