Exploring barriers and facilitators to breastfeeding infants among Gypsies and Travellers in Wales: a qualitative study

Recommendations include ensuring that Gypsy and Traveller women and their partners are offered an antenatal contact with a midwife and health visitor to discuss the health benefits of breastfeeding and how to express breastmilk as well as breastfeed; collaboration with Gypsy and Traveller advocates to facilitate environmental change to enable breastfeeding; and further ethnographic research to understand the Gypsy and Traveller culture.

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BMJ Paediatrics Open
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2026-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2025-003707
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Romani and Gypsy Studies
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Exploring barriers and facilitators to breastfeeding infants among Gypsies and Travellers in Wales: a qualitative study

Jennifer Nyuk Wo Lim, Sarah Parry
BMJ Paediatrics Open
Romani and Gypsy Studies
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Exploring barriers and facilitators to breastfeeding infants among Gypsies and Travellers in Wales: a qualitative study

Jennifer Nyuk Wo Lim, Sarah Parry
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Abstract

Recommendations include ensuring that Gypsy and Traveller women and their partners are offered an antenatal contact with a midwife and health visitor to discuss the health benefits of breastfeeding and how to express breastmilk as well as breastfeed; collaboration with Gypsy and Traveller advocates to facilitate environmental change to enable breastfeeding; and further ethnographic research to understand the Gypsy and Traveller culture.

BMJ Paediatrics OpenVol. 10(1)
University of Wolverhampton (GB), Cwm Taf University Health Board (GB)
University of Wolverhampton, Health and Care Research Wales
Gender equality
Openalex Percentile: Top 95%
Romani and Gypsy Studies
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