Getting the Green Light: Experiences of Icelandic Mothers Struggling with Breastfeeding

• Main Author: Símonardóttir, Sunna
• Other Authors: Sociological Research Online, ISSN 1360-7804
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: http://www.epress.ac.uk 2016
• Subjects: Breastfeeding; Motherhood; Parenting Culture; Scientific Discourses; the Body; Pillar; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/21/4/1.html

The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, with continued breastfeeding up to two years of age or beyond. This policy has been adopted by the Nordic countries, including Iceland, where there has been an upward trend towards higher breastfeeding...