Keywords: COVID-19, Australian Breastfeeding Association, relactation, infant feeding in emergencies, volunteer peer support Breastfeeding Review 2020;28(3), 25-35 INTRODUCTION On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (who) declared the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, a pandemic (Ghebreyesus, 2020) Respondents were asked to provide non-identifying information about how and when they were contacted and the concerns of the person seeking support, noting relactation and increasing milk supply as potential areas of concern Codes were arranged into themes encompassing the data Since the data was pre-existing, contains no identifying information and is of negligible risk, the research was determined to be exempt from the need for ethical review by the Western Sydney University Human Research Ethics Committee Support to increase milk supply to avoid or eliminate supplementary formula feeds Thirty-nine mothers sought assistance to increase their milk supply or reduce infant formula supplementation because of COVID-19
Providing breastfeeding support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Concerns of mothers who contacted the Australian Breastfeeding Association