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abstract: 'Background In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, billions of people were
asked by their state and local governments not to go to work and not
leave the house unless they had to. The goal of this qualitative study
was to collect the lived experiences of a small group of parents and
lactation professionals in the United States about what it was like to
feed babies human milk under these conditions of quarantine. Methods
This project is a social constructionist analysis of lactation
narratives of 24 parents feeding their children human milk and 13
lactation professionals. They were interviewed remotely in 2020-21 via
videoconferencing about their experiences and perspectives on the
pandemic''s effect on lactation. Additionally, photographs of 16 of the
parents are provided to visualize their practices and how they chose to
represent them. Results Four interrelated themes were identified in
participants'' narratives about how they experienced and made sense of
human milk feeding during the pandemic: the loneliness of lactation
during the pandemic, the construction of human milk as a resource to
cope with the crisis, the (in)visibility of lactation amidst heightened
multitasking, and the sense of connection created by human milk feeding
at a time of unprecedented solitude. Conclusions While the pandemic may
have had both positive and negative effects on lactation, it exposed
continuing inequities in infant feeding, generating new forms of
(in)visibility for lactating labor. Going forward, one lesson for policy
and lawmakers may be that to adequately support lactation, they should
take cues from the families who had positive experiences during the
crisis. This would call for systemically overhauling of US laws and
policies by guaranteeing: universal basic income, paid parental leave
for at least six months, paid lactation leaves and breaks, affordable
housing, universal health care, subsidized childcare programs, and equal
access to high-quality, non-discriminatory, and culturally appropriate
medical care-including lactation counseling-, among other initiatives.'
affiliation: 'Cohen, M (Corresponding Author), Univ Connecticut, Sch Law, Hartford,
CT 06105 USA.
Cohen, Mathilde, Univ Connecticut, Sch Law, Hartford, CT 06105 USA.'
article-number: '22'
author: Cohen, Mathilde and Botz, Corinne
author-email: mathilde.cohen@uconn.edu
author_list:
- family: Cohen
given: Mathilde
- family: Botz
given: Corinne
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1186/s13006-022-00451-2
files: []
issn: 1746-4358
journal: INTERNATIONAL BREASTFEEDING JOURNAL
keywords: 'Breastfeeding; Lactation; Pandemic; COVID-19; Gender inequality;
Parenting; Human milk feeding; Milk sharing; Donor human milk'
language: English
month: MAR 21
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '72'
orcid-numbers: Cohen, Mathilde/0000-0002-8882-1211
papis_id: 724b9bb248e2cab64a84fc35cb00d29d
ref: Cohen2022lactationquarantine
times-cited: '3'
title: 'Lactation in quarantine: The (in)visibility of human milk feeding during the
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000771542600001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '3'
volume: '17'
web-of-science-categories: Obstetrics \& Gynecology; Pediatrics
year: '2022'