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QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
卷 32, 期 1, 页码 31-47出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/10497323211032158
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breastfeeding; infant feeding; trajectory; intensive mothering; success; qualitative description; qualitative; United States
This study challenges the traditional biomedical definition of breastfeeding success and instead focuses on the visions of success described by breastfeeding mothers themselves. By analyzing interviews and surveys of 38 first-time mothers in the United States, the study describes five common pathways through the first-year postpartum, emphasizing a more complex taxonomy beyond the dichotomy of success and failure.
What is breastfeeding success? In this article, we challenge the traditional biomedical definition, instead centering visions of success described by breastfeeding mothers themselves. Using semi-structured interviews, quantitative surveys, and written narratives of 38 first-time mothers in the United States, we describe five common pathways through the first-year postpartum, a taxonomic distinction far more complex than a success-failure dichotomy: sustained breastfeeding, exclusive pumping, combination feeding, rapid weaning, and grinding back to exclusivity. We also explore the myriad ways in which mothers define and experience breastfeeding success, and in the process uncover the ways that cultural narratives-especially intensive mothering-color those experiences. Finally, we discuss how these experiences are shaped by infant feeding pathway. In doing so, we discover nuance that has gone unexplored in the breastfeeding literature. These findings have implications for supporting, promoting, and protecting breastfeeding in the United States and other high-income countries.
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