Negative support describes “those a

Negative support describes “those actions by which a member in one’s social network causes distress (e.g. resentment, sadness, shame); negative interactions may include discouraging the expression of feelings, making critical remarks, invading another’s privacy, interfering in another’s affairs, or failing to provide promised help, amongst others” (Lincoln, 2000). During the prenatal period, mothers identified forms of negative support that they anticipated would be unhelpful to receive from their partner with regards to breastfeeding, whereas at the post-natal time points, mothers were asked to identify instances of negative paternal support that they had actually received from their partner with regards to breastfeeding.