Table 5.

Frustration regarding inconsistent professional clinical advice (theme 5)

Theme 5: Participant Comments
‘My OB wasn't very in tune with me about breastfeeding because all I saw her for was my six partum … but I was seeing the lactation consultant who gave me similar advice to supplement and she also told me to pump just to get in my milk supply’ (Participant 1, Group 1).
‘In the hospital they told me to pump to get my milk going and then I had the home healthcare nurse come four days later to check on me and I told her I was pumping and she looked at me she's like, “Why are you pumping?” I was like, “That's what they told me” … She said, “That's going to cause your milk to increase too much and you're going to get engorged,” and that's exactly what happened … My boobs would get really engorged and I would be leaking all the time and I didn't understand why … she said, ‘Don't pump for the first month like you were told because it [is] going to produce too much milk’ (Participant 4, Group 2).
‘I had another consultant tell me I shouldn't be pumping until a certain‐, until I reached a certain number of weeks which I didn't understand because someone else was telling me to pump so I was kind of confused’ (Participant 34, Group 6).
‘I got sort of conflicting messages at the hospital so I kind of left not really knowing how to solve this problem …’ (Participant 39, Group 7).