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Researchers from University of Connecticut detail findings in birth injury.

Women's Health Weekly

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According to a study from the United States, "Up to 34% of new mothers have reported experiencing a traumatic childbirth. Documented risk factors for delayed or failed lactogenesis include stressful labor and delivery, unscheduled cesarean births, and psychosocial stress and pain related to childbirth."

"To explore the impact of birth trauma on mothers' breast-feeding experiences. Phenomenology was the qualitative research design used to investigate mothers' breast-feeding experiences after birth trauma. Fifty-two women were recruited over the Internet through the assistance of Trauma and Birth Stress, a charitable trust located in Now Zealand. Each mother sent her breast-feeding story to the researchers via the Internet. Colaizzi's (1978) method was used to analyze the data," wrote C.T. Beck and colleagues, University of Connecticut (see also Birth Injury).

The researchers concluded: "Eight themes emerged about whether mothers' breast-feeding attempts were promoted or impeded."

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