Natural versus Taught: Competing Discourses in Antenatal Breastfeeding Workshops

This article is an analysis of talk in breastfeeding workshops that are part of National Childbirth Trust antenatal classes. Using audio-recordings from breastfeeding workshops antenatal classes, the data were analysed using a qualitative, discursive methodology based in part on the premises outline...

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Published in:Journal of health psychology 2009-04, Vol.14 (3), p.435-446
Main Author: Locke, Abigail
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Antenatal
Biological and medical sciences
Breast Feeding
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding & lactation
Childbirth & labor
Classes
Communication
Counsellors
Discourse analysis
Discourses
Education
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gynecology and obstetrics
Humans
Pregnancy
Psychology
Psychology and medicine
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Teaching
United Kingdom
Workshops
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Summary:This article is an analysis of talk in breastfeeding workshops that are part of National Childbirth Trust antenatal classes. Using audio-recordings from breastfeeding workshops antenatal classes, the data were analysed using a qualitative, discursive methodology based in part on the premises outlined by Potter and Wetherell (1987) and Edwards and Potter (1992, 2001). The analysis demonstrates how there are two main discourses of breastfeeding constructed by the breastfeeding counsellor—breastfeeding as natural, and breastfeeding as learnt. In particular, it notes how these two main discourses of breastfeeding that are seemingly in competition with one another, operate concurrently within the teaching of breastfeeding, and enable the breastfeeding counsellor to manage issues and concerns around breastfeeding.
ISSN:1359-1053
1461-7277
DOI:10.1177/1359105309102200