When I'm Nursingm My Baby He Will Hit Himself

Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2017 Nov-Dec; 22(6): 449–454.

A Qualitative Written report on Negative Emotions Triggered past Breastfeeding; Describing the Phenomenon of Breastfeeding/Nursing Aversion and Agitation in Breastfeeding Mothers

Zainab M. Yate

Independent Researcher and Vice Chair of the London-Brent Health Research Authority Research Ethics Committee, London, U.k.

Received 2016 Dec; Accustomed 2017 Apr.

Abstruse

Groundwork:

Breastfeeding aversion and agitation (BAA) while breastfeeding is anecdotally known to occur in some women who breastfeed while pregnant or those who tandem feed a newborn and a toddler. However, it is a picayune-researched area and the paucity of published literature around BAA reveals a significant gap in the literature.

Materials and Methods:

This report presents the findings and responses of 694 women who filled in an anonymous survey questionnaire that collected data on their basic demographics and their experiences with breastfeeding. It uses thematic and inductive content analysis, with qualitative interpretive description to present the findings.

Results:

The findings of this study shed light on an experienced miracle of aversion and agitation whilst breastfeeding, which varies in course, severity, and duration. It is characterised by feelings of acrimony or rage, a skin crawling sensation and an urge to remove the suckling infant, only tin also be feelings of agitation and irritability whilst the baby is latched. A number of mothers who experience disfavor still go along to breastfeed, but take feelings of guilt and shame while also experiencing confusion around those feelings.

Conclusions:

BAA is a phenomenon that occurs in some women who breastfeed, whereby breastfeeding triggers negative emotions. The reason women experience it is not clearly known. Enquiry is needed to empathise its cause, triggers, and strategies to minimise the experience in breastfeeding mothers.

Keywords: Anger, breastfeeding, breastfeeding agitation, breastfeeding aversion, infant feeding, maternal wellness, nursing

Introduction

Literature exists on aversions from women who choose not to breastfeed, or who try merely have early cessation of breastfeeding. All the same, limited literature exists on feelings of aversion toward breastfeeding by women continuing to breastfeed, which is the main objective of this written report. 1 study refers to breastfeeding aversion and agitation (BAA) every bit part of the negative embodied emotions that breastfeeding could trigger,[i] while another past Flower[2] mainly refers to agitation when tandem feeding (two or more than infants) or feeding when pregnant, although the author notes it can potentially exist experienced past any breastfeeding female parent. Feelings of aversion toward breastfeeding is also quoted in distinction to Dysphoric-Milk Ejection Reflex, which is a condition that is categorised by distinctly dysphoric feelings 'only during milk releases'[3] There are as well blog posts and online articles on the phenomenon.

As advocates of breastfeeding and health campaigns raise sensation of the benefits and clear importance of breastfeeding in babe nutrition, at that place is often a picture painted of the happily 'in beloved' breastfeeding female parent supported, in principle, past numerous studies showing the calming office of oxytocin.[4,5,6] In an endeavour to promote breastfeeding around the world, visual representations of the pro-breastfeeding messages and images are always of smile mothers and babies. The everyday experience of a mother is often glossed over, so mothers are not prepared and even healthcare professionals may exist seen to give unrealistic expectations of breastfeeding when assisting mothers.[7,8] Aversion and agitation whilst breastfeeding (BAA) seem to be unacknowledged challenges for mothers who breastfeed and healthcare professionals who support them. As such, the main aim of this study is to explore the phenomenon of BAA in breastfeeding mothers past asking mothers to report their feel of it and hash out the possible reasons for it.

Materials and Methods

This written report presents information nerveless in 2015 through an bearding survey questionnaire that asked any mother who was breastfeeding to answer 10 questions; the first vi of which were demographics and characteristics, the next 2 asked if the participant was tandem feeding or if they were significant. Of the remaining 2, ane asked if they feel or have experienced an aversion to breastfeeding or agitation whilst breastfeeding. The last question asked if they had washed so, for them to 'please describe this experience/please state more than virtually your breastfeeding journey'. The last question was designed to gather more than detail about the nature of their experiences, and to reveal plausible avenues of further research. Quantitative data was gathered in the form of participant characteristics and demographic variables in order to identify possible groups of women who experienced BAA. The inclusion criteria were: ability to read and write English language in club to read the participant information sheet, opt-in consent and fill out the questionnaire, and to be a mother who was breastfeeding. There was no scientifically justifiable reason to exclude mothers who experienced sexual abuse, were postnatally depressed, or women who were not tandem feeders or feeding while pregnant in this cursory written report. A total of 694 women completed the questionnaire.

The intended purpose of the questionnaire was to come across if breastfeeding women experienced aversion, and to gain qualitative information premised upon the symptomatic cocky-reported experiences of mothers equally the basis of further research, rather than to seek definitive medical signs of BAA or a quantitative incidence of BAA. The survey was created using Survey Monkey, and was circulated internationally on social media (Republic of india, Iran, and America), including parenting groups, forums and on the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers forum (United Kingdom). There were 694 responses in 48 hours. Every bit at that place is little academic research or literature on BAA in breastfeeding mothers, a rigid methodology and specific research questions in this study were not possible. This written report seeks to institute whether or non there is the need for further research into this area, and appropriate enquiry questions. Therefore, an exploratory approach has been undertaken in order to develop a basic understanding of BAA, and the possibility of farther research. For the analysis of the results, thematic assay is used. Qualitative interpretive clarification[9,10] is utilized in order to allow women to country what disfavor ways to them, and inductive content assay[11] to present discussion of the findings. Quotes were selected that were sufficient to draw each category identified in the results information.

Ethical considerations

As there was no recruitment of National Health Service patients, and it was circulated online internationally, this written report did not require Wellness Inquiry Authority approval in the UK. No intervention or process was conducted, no identifiable data was collected, and the study required opt-in consent (by participants' virtue of reading the participant information canvass online and choosing to fill in the forms of their own volition). The Participant Information Sheet was included at the introduction of the survey for informed consent where it was stated that quotes may be used for publication but that they would be anonymised as a pseudonym name would be used.

Results

In that location was wide demographic representation of women who responded, as tin can exist seen in Tabular array ane. In that location was no discernible demographic design of a accomplice of women who experienced BAA, rather there was representation from all ethnicities, ages, and marital and educational statuses. Of the responses, simply 22% (151) were tandem feeding, and merely effectually xi% (78) were pregnant [Table ii]. The rest of the respondents who replied 'Yeah' to whether they experience aversion were breastfeeding a single infant and were non meaning. A big proportion of around 70% (479) of all respondents stated they experienced BAA whilst breastfeeding. Whilst around one third (213) skipped the final open up-ended question asking more than about their experiences, ii thirds (434) answered, and these responses were used for qualitative analysis. There were a number of similar descriptive accounts of BAA, with many common phrases used by mothers [Table three], as well as detailed comments nigh the elapsing of fourth dimension BAA lasted and when information technology occurred. These take been set out below with some quotes, under the subheadings; 'Description of the miracle', 'Frequency and duration', 'Severity', 'Pain' and 'Triggers'. As the responses were anonymised, a pseudonym name is given to each quote used in this study.

Table 1

Participant demographics (n=694)

Table two

Participant characteristics (n=694)

Table 3

Summary of common phrases listed (no connectedness between columns)

Description of the phenomenon

Whilst some mothers wrote single words or short statements to draw their experience, such as Helen who wrote just 'anxiety, acrimony, irritation, creepy crawlies, nipple pain, tin can't stay still, desire to run away, fierce thoughts', others wrote much longer and detailed paragraphs.

Acrimony/Rage: Of the responses, the experiences of anger were one of the most frequent as can be read in Layla'south experience: "Awful acrimony, hated breastfeeding, uncomfortable sensation. Non certain why it happened, or when it started, but my son. [was] a few months old and I felt similar this almost every time I breastfed him".

Agitation: Some women would describe somewhat milder feelings and experiences that could be described as being agitated or irritated whilst breastfeeding, like Sara who wrote: "When my eldest son was near 3, I wanted to wean him and I felt agitated, whenever I was feeding him."

Pare itch/skin itching: Many of the descriptions of BAA often used the exact phrases of 'skin itching' and 'skin itch'. A kind of neuralgia-like feeling was frequently described by mothers, similar Hema: "When she nursed I felt like my peel was crawling to the signal my toes were crimper under, I was biting my nails/my fingers. I had to breathe securely and mentally talk myself through it, and so that I didn't evidence my frustration to my baby girl. I hated information technology."

Wanting to unlatch child: The descriptions of wanting to have the child off the mother were oft repeated, Panteh's experience reflects this urge, that it is swift in approaching and that it doesn't dissipate: "It's a sudden blitz that makes me want to pull my son off immediately. Once it'due south in that location, it stays through the whole feed and I finish up having to take my son off as I can't stand it any longer. Not sure how to describe the feeling but it is toe curling!" Despite this urge to remove their children, or feelings of anger, these mothers wrote they were however breastfeeding, frequently stating the age of the infant.

Guilt and shame near the feelings of BAA: Item recurrent themes of distress and guilt about feelings of acrimony and BAA were frequently cited past mothers like Amvi who wrote: "aversion is really horrible, it takes away that loving feeling you take knowing that you are able to feed your child, it makes you desire to stop it all together, then it makes you experience guilty for feeling like this".

Feelings of anger were often said to raise feelings of guilt and confusion, because the female parent was unsure every bit to what to do about BAA, or why she was feeling anger toward her offspring while they were suckling at the breast. Ache was oft written about, every bit the mothers felt an 'internal conflict' of being angry at their child, and wanting to remove them, whilst simultaneously wanting to nurture and feed them, knowing that suckling at the chest is the best style to do that. Rosanna wrote:

"(It) kickoff happened when he was just a couple of months old. I felt similar I had been put in the center of a storm, I had an energy inside me that made me experience similar I wanted to scream or hit things. I was feeding at the fourth dimension, I said to my fiancé "I experience similar I don't want him feeding!" Merely of grade I felt atrocious for feeling like that. All I wanted was to concur and nourish him."

Several mothers wrote about maintaining breastfeeding while experiencing BAA, and how they were all the same feeding their infant on demand similar Inna who said that at '27 months still feeding on demand, I get irritated when she is latched on', and Malika who wrote 'I was notwithstanding need feeding my 15 month old and I started having an aversion.

Frequency and duration: BAA happens once for some women, and more often for others. Joanna explains how she experiences it: "Generally in the dark. or when I am very tired. It makes me feel angry, or makes my skin crawl, or (I) feel nauseated. He is xvi months and I take only experienced aversion since he was 14 months. The frequency is possibly once/twice per week." Whilst intermittent for some, it is ongoing for other mothers, occurring at every feed. A commonly reported feel was that BAA was experienced once, with the return of postnatal catamenia, several mothers connected their BAA to ovulating or their monthly menstruating cycle. They described it as contemporaneous with ovulation or menstruation, resolving each month as menstruation ends.

Severity: For some women, BAA is very intense, with feelings of repulsion, nausea, anger, rage, and resentment when the kid is latched. Anya'due south experience represents this kind of BAA: "I have been breastfeeding for ane year. Nearing the outset of my cycle I feel aversions that are quite strong. During this fourth dimension I have farthermost agitation and sometimes desire to hurt my baby. (I never take, but I tin can't help but wanting to smoosh her face up into me). I feel extreme guilt for feeling this way only I can't shake the feelings when they occur. I take never physically lashed out at her, but the feelings are then potent I have to unlatch and take a break for fear I may act on my feelings. When I'yard not in times of aversion nosotros have a very positive nursing relationship."

Anya's experiences are echoed through the responses in the survey, with many women having quite severe BAA.

Hurting: Many mothers mentioned of experiencing pain in their breastfeeding journey, with tongue tie often cited as the cause, like in Selina's case: "I really actually wanted to breastfeed my girl but the reality was very hard. She was natural language tied which made it very painful for me in the kickoff few weeks, even subsequently it was sorted. I would dread every feed and there were a lot of tears. I am glad I put so much force per unit area on myself equally I could have given up." 'Painful nipples' and 'uncomfortable latches' were frequently noted.

Triggers: Several mothers made mention of their child's physical behaviour being very irritating when they are latched, triggering their BAA, from 'fidgeting', 'wriggling', 'nipple tweaking' (of the reverse breast to that being suckled), and 'wandering hands'. Many besides shared the sentiment that BAA was primarily triggered when tired: "It normally happens when I am very tired and when my son, fiddles with the nipple he is not being fed from. It makes me very angry and apparently (I) suppress the anger but and so I feel tearful and guilty" said Julianne. Others felt uncomfortable almost what they deemed excessive physical contact, using the phrase of feeling 'touched out'. Breastfeeding during the day, and at night, on demand, would hateful a lot of concrete contact for some women.

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Signs and symptoms

Mothers who participated in the study reported feelings of acrimony and agitation while breastfeeding, and irritating skin sensations, only also the desire to go on. There were no differences in the description of feelings from the unlike groups of breastfeeding women (i.e., single, tandem, or breastfeeding while significant). The survey responses reveal a consistent cluster of associated symptoms according to the occurrence and frequency of phrases and statements shown in Table iii. Symptoms, diagnostically, are the subjective experience of the person, i.e., what the person is reporting, and are non to be confused with signs (or disease), which are medically testable.[12] Symptoms are qualitative in nature, and in this written report in that location are many comparable symptoms reported by mothers that are non yet medically explainable. Women who are actively breastfeeding ought to be able to do so, all things being equal, without a dandy amount difficulty or urge to unlatch. They have decided to breastfeed, they have the will to do so, and they are lactating. So why do women feel these similar symptoms of BAA? What causes BAA? Is it physiological, or is it psychological, mayhap a office of postnatal depression? In brusk, medically unexplained symptoms affair.[13] Breastfeeding is often considered every bit improving attachment and the mother-child relationship, even with positive implications on mental health in some cases,[14] simply what almost when it is a source of friction, tension, discomfort, and emotional difficulty as information technology is for many of the mothers in this study? As BAA is widely unacknowledged, and there is piffling research conducted on the phenomenon, the plausible reasons for BAA that are proposed in the give-and-take below are theories drawn from related research in fields including lactation and parenting.

Who experiences BAA and why?

There was no specific indigenous or age group of women who experience aversion. Accounts of BAA are similar in women breastfeeding only 1 baby, with those nursing ii or more, or pregnant and breastfeeding. All the same, there are perhaps more straightforward reasons why women who breastfeed while pregnant might experience difficulty or uncomfortable sensations. Women tin can have extremely sensitive nipples when pregnant,[fifteen] and are experiencing a mass of hormonal and other extraordinary concrete changes in their bodies.[16] As lactation itself 'represents the greatest postnatal energetic expenditure for human and non-human female primates',[17] coupled with the changes in pregnancy, these factors may account for symptoms of acrimony or agitation that would assist both the biological and emotional urge to either terminate or limit breastfeeding.

BAA may well exist both physiological too as psychological, especially for women who find nursing uncomfortable or have nipple pain, equally a study showed that lactating women who were experiencing nipple hurting were also experiencing 'high levels of emotional distress'.[18] Many mothers commented in this study that breastfeeding was painful, and they had nipple soreness due to poor latch, babies with tongue necktie, and considering of pregnancy. Having to constantly appoint in any action that causes yous hurting or is uncomfortable tin certainly exist a contributing factor to being agitated or angry. However, this caption would non account for the women who link BAA to the return of their postnatal flow or monthly menstrual cycles, or for those that experience BAA when very tired and run down. From a biological viewpoint, information technology is plausible that it is nature's way of encouraging weaning due to bereft nutrients or hormonal imbalances, given their important part in lactation.[19]

Hormonal adjustments the female person body undergoes when menstruating are known to have an effect on some women, or cause pre- or post-menstrual tension.[twenty] Milk composition and production also vary greatly along the lactating journey of a mother, to suit the suckling baby's needs, and this is partly regulated by hormones. The book of milk produced constantly changes, and concentrations of lactose, poly peptide and macronutrients, including magnesium, potassium, and calcium vary as well.[21] Nutritional requirements for a mother, therefore, also greatly increment when lactating, then if a mother is not eating or sleeping well, and her torso is feeling the strain, from a physiological point of view she is likely to have feelings of BAA to try to reduce or finish breastfeeding.

Feeding older infants and feeding on need

Many responses from women in the study indicated they were however breastfeeding, despite BAA, and often 'on demand' with toddlers and older infants. This dynamic may be a contributing cistron to BAA if the female parent is not able to comfortably offer feeds, or if the infant is persistent with wanting the breast. Current studies bear witness that hormones in breast milk tin touch different areas of infant growth, with permanent effects on physiological processes,[22] it is understood that they tin play a office in an private'due south predispositions to behaviours, such as assailment and impulsion.[23] Chest milk in mammals is shown to have an impact on brain evolution, besides as the potential to affect infant behaviour and the development of behavioural dispositions.[24] Especially of involvement to this written report would exist the role and pathways of glucocorticoids, which is the hormone cortisol in humans, as it has been shown to affect the temperament of babies,[25] especially those with exposure to elevated levels in breast milk.[26] Information technology is plausible that BAA in mothers has some foundation in this hormonal pathway, and it is exacerbated by both her behaviour, the response of the infant who breastfeeds, and the physical discomfort when breastfeeding due to latch. With this in mind, it is reasonable to posit that mothers who feel BAA may have college levels of cortisol whilst breastfeeding than mothers who do not.

Britton found that mothers who breastfeed can show greater sensitivity in interaction with their young, and this early on sensitivity has been used as an 'contained predictor of any and exclusive breastfeeding during the first year'.[27] This behavioural response of sensitivity could be a reason for the sustained 'feeding on demand' exhibited with some of the mothers and infants in this study. If a female parent feeds on demand, this increases the duration of breastfeeding as well as amount of physical contact. With age, the child's dependency on the milk for survival decreases, and if the dynamic of responsive breastfeeding stays intact, this could cause tension and frustration, and increase the incidence of BAA. BAA appears to be both a complex and sensitive miracle for women who experience information technology, and must make breastfeeding very difficult and stressful.

The following limitations are noted for this study; without any previous inquiry into BAA in mothers, determination of specific exclusion criteria for participants was non possible to include, and as such information technology is difficult to come to definitive conclusions nearly the responses of the mothers, and consequently about BAA. A farther report is needed to include the screening of participants for previous sexual abuse history,[28] of postnatal low,[29] and an assessment of the infant feeding such as tongue necktie is required now to assert a specific accomplice that BAA occurs in, and if this would change the results of the written report or whether BAA is dissever from postnatal illness of unwanted negative intrusive thoughts.[30] However, at that place is such lilliputian published inquiry in this expanse. This study offers a small, but of import, platform for both the exploration and clarification of BAA.

Determination

The responses from mothers in the questionnaire indicate, at to the lowest degree in description, that the miracle of BAA in breastfeeding women exists, with varying severity and duration, amongst a wide demographic group. Phrases such as being 'touched out', or having a 'skin itch', 'itchy' sensation, coupled with anger or agitation and a need to take the infant 'unlatched' and 'far abroad' could be said to correspond a full general descriptive understanding of what the miracle is. The severity of sensations or discomfort, and feelings of anger or agitation can vary from balmy to severe. The onset and duration of BAA tin can likewise vary, and is different from women to women.

To conduct enquiry that was able to constitute the prevalence, severity, frequency, and onset of BAA in more particular, likewise equally to identify what helps, either anecdotally or scientifically, would be of great use to the field of lactation for healthcare professionals, breastfeeding peer supporters, mothers who breastfeed, and peculiarly for mothers who intend to breastfeed.

Financial support and sponsorship

Author of blog www.breastfeedingaversion.com, and breastfeeding peer supporter with the National Health Service (Great britain).

Conflicts of interest

At that place are no conflicts of involvement.

Acknowledgement

I would similar to give thanks my married man, Mehdi Kader, without whom, for and so many reasons, this inquiry would not accept been possible. I am indebted to Ruth Shill for her pedantry and literary finery. I would also like to thank Julie Peris and Alison Spiro of the NHS for the encouragement to pursue this slice, and all the mothers all over the world who gave an overwhelming response and shared their experiences of breastfeeding aversion and difficulties most breastfeeding.

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