Building liquid bridges: Donor human milk, maternal lifestyle choices, and transdisciplinary research

摘要

The MUIMME (an ancient Irish term for wet nurse and our acronym for Milk banking and the Uncertain Interaction between Maternal Milk and Ethanol) project engages discussions of women's health and lifestyle policies across the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Ireland as part of an in-depth transdisciplinary ethnographic study of four of the largest donor human milk banks. In many countries across Europe, we see high levels of alcohol consumption occurring among women of child bearing age (World Health Organization 2014). During our study, the U.K. alcohol policies underwent major changes, and now breastfeeding mothers are no longer identified as a special group for whom separate alcohol consumption guidelines are specified (Department of Health 2016).