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Providing Lactation Care Following Stillbirth, Neonatal and Infant Death: Learning from Bereaved Parents
Author/editor: Debbie Noble-Carr, Katherine Carroll, Simon Copland and Catherine Waldby
Year published: 2023
Objective: The study aimed to identify how, from the perspective of bereaved parents, hospital-based health professionals can better meet their lactation care needs. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with 17 mothers and 7 fathers bereaved by stillbirth, neonatal death, or older infant...
Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant
Author/editor: Catherine Waldby, Debbie Noble-Carr, Katherine Carroll
Year published: 2022
Breast milk is a highly valued substance, immunologically and nutritionally, which also signifies maternal care and love for the infant. This intersection of biological and cultural qualities confers breast milk with complex meanings, which necessarily shape the experience of breastfeeding. Our...
'It was a shared duty': Bereaved fathers’ perspectives, experiences and practices in relation to their partner’s lactation after infant death.
Author/editor: Debbie Noble-Carr, Katherine Carroll, Simon Copland, Catherine Waldby
Year published: 2022
This exploratory study targets a significant gap in the lactation and bereavement literature by exploring bereaved fathers’ experiences, perspectives and practices in relation to their partner’s lactation after stillbirth, neonatal or infant death. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with...
Mapping Hospital-Based Lactation Care Provided to Bereaved Mothers: A Basis for Quality Improvement
Author/editor: Debbie Noble-Carr, Katherine Carroll, & Catherine Waldby
Year published: 2021
The study aimed to identify and map the factors that shape the delivery of hospital-based lactation care for bereaved mothers to inform quality improvement initiatives targeting hospital-based lactation care. Focus groups and interviews were conducted at three large hospitals in Australia with 113...
Lactation After Infant Death: Partners’ Experiences
Author/editor: Katherine Carroll, Simon Copland, Debbie Noble-Carr & Catherine Waldby
Year published: 2021
Funded by: Newborn Intensive Care Foundation This publication reports on the findings of a pilot study funded by the Newborn Intensive Care Foundation. Researchers interviewed seven bereaved fathers, in the ACT and Queensland, in order to examine their experiences, perspectives and practices toward...
The “Lactation After Infant Death (AID) Framework”: A Guide for Online Health Information Provision About Lactation After Stillbirth and Infant Death
Author/editor: Katherine Carroll , Debbie Noble-Carr, Lara Sweeney, and Catherine Waldby
Year published: 2020
Most parents who give birth to a stillborn infant, or who give birth then endure the death of their young infant, will encounter the onset of lactation (McGuinness et al., 2014). For breastfeeding parents who experience the death of their older infant, many will have established lactation or frozen...
Lactation after infant death: an analysis of Australian healthcare agencies’ online health information
Author/editor: Lara Sweeney, Katherine Carroll, Debbie Noble-Carr & Catherine Waldby
Year published: 2020
Lactation is a potent signifier of maternal love and care commonly associated with early motherhood and infant survival. It is common, however, for bereaved mothers who have recently undergone miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death to produce breastmilk. Drawing on a critical feminist lens that...
The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs
Author/editor: C Waldby
Year published: 2019
In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes—the reproductive cells specific to...
Suppress and Express: Breast Milk Donation After Neonatal Death
Author/editor: Carroll, Katherine and Lenne, Brydan
Year published: 2019
Designated private breastfeeding spaces in the university sector: An audit of one Australian university
Author/editor: Kathryn Eden, Katherine Carroll, Rebecca Williamson, Andrea Butler, Julie Smith
Year published: 2019
Our study focuses on designated breastfeeding rooms on campus at a leading Australian university. Universities have a growing female staff and student cohort, including breastfeeding women who are legally protected to breastfeed. As part of a wider university initiative to improve gender equity and...
