Infants' transition from milk to solid foods - the lived experiences of first-time parents.

: During the transition from ingesting milk to ingesting solid food, infants substantiate their eating habits. The present study focuses on this transition. Specifically, it aimed to explore first-time parents' lived experiences of their infants' transition from milk to solid foods.

When breastfeeding is unsuccessful--mothers' experiences after giving up breastfeeding.

Some mothers have to give up breastfeeding even though they want to breastfeed. To give up breastfeeding can be a sensitive issue in a time when breastfeeding is promoted as the healthiest for mother and child. The aim of this study was to describe mothers' experiences after they gave up breastfeeding even though they intended to breastfeed.

Shattered expectations: when mothers' confidence in breastfeeding is undermined--a metasynthesis.

Objectives: Why do mothers give up breastfeeding, even though breastfeeding has great importance to them? This study examines what has affected mother's confidence in breastfeeding when she gives up breastfeeding.

Method: A metasynthesis of seven studies on mothers' experiences with breastfeeding was conducted using Noblit and Hare's methodological approach.

Results: The metasynthesis shows that confidence in breastfeeding is shaped by shattered expectations and is affected on an immediate level by mothers' expectations, the network and the breastfeeding experts and on a discourse level by the discourses: breastfeeding as nature, the female body as a machine and the note of caution.