Effective Communication About Pregnancy, Birth, Lactation, Breastfeeding and Newborn Care: The Importance of Sexed Language

Front Glob Womens Health. 2022 Feb 7:3:818856. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2022.818856. eCollection 2022.

Karleen D Gribble¹, Susan Bewley², Melissa C Bartick^{3

4}, Roger Mathisen⁵, Shawn Walker^{2

6}, Jenny Gamble^{7

8}, Nils J Bergman⁹, Arun Gupta¹⁰, Jennifer J Hocking¹¹, Hannah G Dahlen¹

¹ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Women and Children's Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
³ Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, United States.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
⁵ Alive & Thrive Southeast Asia, FHI Solutions, Hanoi, Vietnam.
⁶ Chelsea and Westminster Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
⁷ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁸ Centre for Health Care Research, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹⁰ Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India, New Delhi, India.
¹¹ School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: breastfeeding; gender identity; health communication; inclusivity; mothers; pregnancy; sex; women.