Connection and Pleasure, Disruption and Distress: Women's Experience of Breastfeeding

Journal of Human Lactation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-334

  Schmied, Virginia ^b   Barclay, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Discourse analysis; Embodiment; Feminism; Women's experience

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY IMAGE; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BODY IMAGE; BREAST FEEDING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033286095     PISSN: 08903344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089033449901500410     Document Type: Article

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