Regular ArticleContemporary breast-feeding policy and practice: implications for midwives
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2018, Emotion, Space and SocietyCitation Excerpt :I mean this both in terms of arguing for the social importance of narratives of unsuccessful breastfeeding and in terms of demonstrating the value of thinking about the spatial dynamics which underpin breastfeeding distress. In bringing together my interests in place, the lived body and complex feelings of distress, I contribute to valuable work within cultural geography which predominantly focuses on the transgressive maternal body and breastfeeding and public space (see for example Boyer, 2011, 2012; Lane, 2014; Longhurst, 2008; Mahon-Daly and Andrews, 2002) and within midwifery, public health and health sociology which offers a growing critique of simplistic breastfeeding advocacy and growing engagement with damaging experiences of guilt and shame emerging in a general climate of intensive motherhood (see for example, Thomson et al., 2015; Groleau and Sibeko, 2012; Lee, 2007; Schmied et al., 2001; Taylor and Wallace, 2012; Williams et al., 2012). Whilst I find the recent focus on breastfeeding and shame particularly productive (see Robinson, 2015), in this article my concern is to empirically chart a profound distress triggered by ruptures to the very specific and cannonised body-geography of mother and infant – described by Rebecca Kukla (2005) as that of the fetishised proximity of the infant to the maternal breast.
When 'breast' is no longer 'best': Post-partum constructions of infant-feeding in the hospital
2014, Social Science and MedicineCitation Excerpt :For example, as a “health-risk behaviour”, any use of formula feeding is purported to be linked to otitis media (McNiel et al., 2010, p. 57), higher risks of obesity, asthma, Type 2 diabetes, diarrhea and ear infections, reduced cognitive development, chronic disease, and mortality (Sterken, 2006). The impact of the risk discourse on infant feeding practice is not well known (Heinig, 2009; Ebert Wallace and Taylor, 2011), and breastfeeding is understood in the literature as ‘successful’ when it is exclusively practiced, or, in other words, when supplementation is not required or used (Murphy, 2000; Schmied et al., 2001). Yet supplementation during the hospital stay is surprisingly common.
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