Thanks to Barbara for the post about getting hold of journal articles.

Just a point:  it is much harder for some journals outside the USA.  Many
fewer libraries have a journal like JHL, and getting subscriptions and
paying for articles over the internet without a credit card is very
expensive, time-consuming or sometimes just impossible. ( I pay an extra £8
(getting on for $15) a year for an international bankers' order for my JHL
sub, plus currency changing charges, and absorb any vagaries of the exchange
rate).

So, I will have to be an on-looker to the first discussion.  (I will be
astonished if even the University library I have access to, which has a dept
of Midwifery, will carry Clinical Lactation).

I would also like to say that I would be very interested in seeing the
discussion include *qualitative* research.  In my opinion, we cannot
understand breastfeeding through quantitative research alone.  If we don't
understand, we are unlikely to be able to promote, protect or support, as
per the WHO Code, Innocenti Declaration, etc.

One of the interesting things about qualitative research on breastfeeding is
that it may often be done by anthropologists, sociologists, pyschologists,
and so on.  When reading some of this work, it is frustrating to notice a
lack of depth in the understanding of the researcher of the physical.,
embodied processes of breastfeeding.  At the same time, in reading some work
grounded more in medical science, it is frustrating to see a lack of depth
of understanding of the strengths and complexities of qualitative analysis.

I feel our whole field could move on if these approaches can converge.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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