Table 1.

Pumping can provide an added sense of control over breastfeeding (theme 1)

Theme 1: Participant Comments
‘There's times that I pumped for thirty‐five minutes straight and have been squeezing every last bit out just to get it all out just so I could store it, and freeze it and have it for daycare or whatnot’ (Participant 4, Group 2).
‘Initially I was really excited at the idea of being able to take some herbs and increase my milk supply and be able to feel more comfortable and have a stash of milk in the freezer to feel safer like she had more milk’ (Participant 16, Group 4).
‘I wouldn't pump that much after but it was one, to increase my supply and also to give him back what he wasn't sucking out’ (Participant 32, Group 2).
‘I have the babysitter give him a bottle of breast milk that I pumped and then I'll pump as soon as I get home to make up for it because I'm always concerned about my supply. I don't want to skip a feeding and just use an old feeding because then I'm worried that the next day my body will think it doesn't need that feeding’ (Participant 2, Group 1).
‘When I doubted my milk supply [[baby cooing]] my pediatrician just said to pump one time, he's like, “Just once, once a day after you fed the baby and that will get your milk up” ’ (Participant 21, Group 5).