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Camille had wanted to breastfeed her baby but was not able to do so due to miscommunication and lack of support in the maternity ward.
Camille is of Black African heritage and works as a nurse. She is in a relationship, and has a 16-year-old child and a nine month old baby.
Kay wants to breastfeed her baby for the health benefits for the baby and for herself.
Kay describes her ethnicity as White Other and is currently single. She is studying for a masters degree and is pregnant for the first time.
Pauline and her husband were diagnosed with HIV in 2019, before she was pregnant, when they had attended routine sexual health screening. Pauline lives with her parents, who do not know her or her husband's HIV diagnoses. Her husband lives abroad. Pauline and her husband decided to formula feed their child.
Pauline is married and lives with her parents. She and her husband are of Black African heritage and they have an eight-month-old baby.
Danai found out her HIV diagnosis after the birth of her two older children but before she was pregnant with twins. She decided to formula feed her twins to remove any risk of HIV transmission. She was supported to do so by her medical team and was given milk vouchers.
Danai is married and migrated to the UK in 2019 from Southern Africa. Her older children are 13 and 12 years old, and she has twin babies who are five...
Amy was diagnosed with HIV shortly before she became pregnant with her youngest child who is now one-year-old. Amy decided to formula feed her baby, but wishes she had been better informed about her infant feeding choices.
Amy is in a long-term relationship and has two children, a 12 year old child, and a one-year-old baby. She has taken a period out of work due to health...
Sinead was diagnosed when she was pregnant with her first child. She formula fed both of her children, to avoid any risk of HIV transmission. A local charity has supported her with formula milk.
Sinead is White Scottish. She is married, and has a four-year-old child and a nine month-old baby.
Sasha had formula fed her older children. She decided to formula feed her new baby as well due to a lack of UK specific data around HIV transmission through breastmilk.
Sasha is White British and works for a public sector health organisation. She is engaged to her partner, has and has two older children and an 8-month-old baby.
Marella formula fed her eldest child but is planning to breastfeed her second baby. She read research papers, attended conferences and spoke to her doctors, her husband and her mother to help her make this decision.
Marella is Black British African and works as a drama therapist. She is married, has a two-year-old child, and is currently pregnant. She was born with HIV.
