The oral history of breastfeeding career women on a three-shift work schedule

• Main Authors: Chao-Hua Wu, 吳昭華
• Other Authors: Su-Chen Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34948455562348090873

碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 護理助產研究所 === 93 === This study aims at exploration how a career woman faces the situation where she needs to deal with milk production and milking while working in the office. It has three purposes. First, it explores the relationship between successful breastfeeding and the life experiences of career women who take turns at working in different shifts. Second, it discusses how a career woman plays the role as a mother to breastfeed her baby while taking turns at working in different shifts. Third, this study also investigates the influence and support from family members, babysitters, friends, colleagues and office managers to breastfeeding at office. Five participants were interviewed for their life experience and process of breastfeeding. The content of the audio-taped interview was based on structured guidelines. Every participant accepted three times interviews. Each interview took approximately two to three hours and was transcribed and analyzed afterward. The description, significant meaning and emotion in the story of each participant were connected with the context at that moment to reconstruct its historical meaning and produce the evidence for scientific study. This study of article come to the following conclusions：First, having a strong impression of the “breastfeeding” in the childhood, working women could successfully breastfeed without being affected by time and background. Second, the firm beliefs and the physiological and psychological willing are keys to successful breastfeeding. Third, the intimate attachment was the important factor to sustain the role of “mother” and “working woman” and to extend successful breastfeeding. Fourth, working women handle the different working shifts by overcoming the embarrassment of breastfeeding in public and following the principle of expressing the milk in before and after both work and sleep. Fifth, milk secretion is controllable and trained but is not affected by the different working shifts. Sixth, friendly working environment is a hope to the working women. Implementation of “the time of breast feeding or milking is equal to the time to work” can put an end to working women’s nightmare of “stealing time” to express milk. The results of this study indicate elements that influence the success in breastfeeding of career woman who work in different shifts. The life experience of the working mother is also found to be important to strengthen the belief in breast feeding. Make the career women have the same right to breastfeed.