ABSTRACT

People want everything in black and white ... but being a new mother and breastfeeding are not like that at all. Breastfeeding is like midwifery, you have to wait and see what happens, you don’t know what is going to happen next. You have to go with the flow ... There’s no answer to breastfeeding – it’s complicated, people have different lives, different circumstances and different pressures from outside. I know that from my own experience of breastfeeding. Then midwives bring their own attitudes. It’s very complex.