Maintaining the 'good maternal body': Expressing milk as a way of negotiating the demands and dilemmas of early infant feeding

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 590-599

  Johnson, Sally ^a   Leeming, Dawn ^b   Williamson, Iain ^c   Lyttle, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Discourse analysis; Expressing milk; Midwives; Nurses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MILK, HUMAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873991622     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2012.06035.x     Document Type: Article

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