Stacey’s story reflects her resilience in overcoming institutional and personal challenges to prioritise her child’s health and her commitment to breastfeeding despite systemic shortcomings. Here, she discusses her two-decade breastfeeding journey revealing her resilience, advocacy, and challenges in navigating societal norms, workplace barriers, and other systemic shortcomings.
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With my first son, I had to have a caesarean with him because he was breached, but I did breastfeed him, I breastfed him for eight months, but I really struggled. And I think being quite young, I really felt like I was kind of just pushed to, well, just give him formula and I really didn’t want to, so I was kind of stuck with using the shields that I ended up with and I fed him for nine months and then when he was teething and there was just no support really to say like how to persevere… read more