ArticleInternational journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2025
Living in existential exile: women's lived experience of intimate partner violence during the breastfeeding period.
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- Caring as a potential existential refuge from intimate partner violence during the breastfeeding period: a reflective lifeworld study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeIntimate partner violence is a global health issue with physical, mental, and existential impacts. It affects women throughout their lives, including the breastfeeding period. Gaining an understanding of existential dimensions could potentially inspire individualized, health-oriented care. This study aims to explain and understand women's lived experience of intimate partner violence during the breastfeeding period.
methodsA lifeworld hermeneutic approach guided the interpretative analysis of nine lifeworld interviews and forty-nine written lifeworld stories of women exposed to intimate partner violence during breastfeeding.
resultsThe interpretations show that intimate partner violence during the breastfeeding period means to breastfeed under attack in an objectified and provocative female body while feeling abandoned and entrapped in an incomprehensible reality. The interpretations are abstracted into a main interpretation: being forced into an existential exile that entails an ambiguous passive-active resistance.
conclusionsExposure to intimate partner violence during breastfeeding is a forced existential exile in a vulnerable situation. Women are forced into unauthentic lives, where their whole being is questioned, and active resistance is inhibited by limited freedom. Awareness of the lived experience of IPV during breastfeeding is essential for healthcare professionals to help reduce the suffering and enhance the health and well-being of women exposed to IPV.
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