Table 7.

Supportive quotes

Reference	Supportive quote	Study
Finding 8.1	She gave me leaflets and she would phone me every other day to see how I was going. I was so frightened and worried about getting mastitis because that had always stopped me because I get really poorly with it. She would phone me to make sure that everything was all right and I was not in any pain or anything and if I was worried about anything she would come and see me to check it… because I was worried about a lot, so she came out a lot to see me. She was brilliant, can't praise her enough.	Thomson 2012
Finding 8.2	I was looking at 5 weeks max. I said well I'm not going to be doing it for long anyway and A (peer supporter) said but even if it's only for a week, 2 weeks, you're giving her the best.	Battersby 2002
Finding 8.3	Like a thorn in the side, though I have sort of accepted it verbally, but I can still feel that there is a thorn in the side. I know that my family think that I should breastfeed, they haven't said so, but I still feel what they think: you should breastfeed your baby.	Engstrom 2000
Finding 8.4	They [organisation] did do a section on breastfeeding and she was excellent, and (partner) came away from that completely sold on it. He doesn't usually bother reading things, but he absorbed all that and he came away saying it's so good for her… He was adamant that was what we were going to try and do.	Thomson 2012
Finding 8.5	I knew nothing until somebody phoned me (once the baby was born).	Islam 2016
Finding 9.1	They were pushing and hurting my breasts and I was like “for the love of God, just stop!	Noble‐Carr 2012
Finding 9.2	It might be their way of doing it, to get you going with the breastfeeding… but, I do not like it, It might be difficult to do it in another way. I do not think it is funny when someone is pulling your breast, but you have to accept the situation.	Weimers 2006