Sembrando y Cosechando Amor
A Holistic Breastfeeding Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17814727 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luissana Santibañez (Expert System (Italy)), Nadezhda Garza (Expert System (Italy)), Danielle Bernal (Expert System (Italy)), Yenina GR (Expert System (Italy)), Shaquirra Anderson (Expert System (Italy)), Anayanse Garza, Chong-Min Fu-Sosnaud, Delia Lyons, Yvonne Ramirez, Paola Hooda, Ciji Cruz Couvertier (0009-0003-9110-9182, Urology San Antonio), Stephen D Kroeger (0000-0001-9131-968X, University of Cincinnati), Alfredo Ortiz Aragón (0000-0003-0406-9948, Urology San Antonio, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/19408447251403479 |
| OpenAlex | W7127118968 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
Sembrando Amor was a collaborative effort between Community Experts, public health professionals, and university-based action researchers, each of whom made explicit decisions to work outside of their normal roles for the good of the broader community and of our shared Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) project. The project, which included a Photovoice and cartoon zining process, centers community experiences and voices with the intent to honor their role as experts in frontline matters that impact them as an institutionally marginalized community. Our main outcome is a community-driven vision for what a holistic breastfeeding support system looks like—a system that engages the expertise present in community breastfeeding experiences and wisdom, creates solidarity and builds on family support, critically engages the social determinants of health, and recasts the helpers to enable community-centered care. By sharing their stories of resilience, we hope to encourage others in the community to breastfeed and encourage institutions to learn from their stories and experiences to change policy and attitudes to more effectively support breastfeeding in ways that are meaningful, practical, and culturally and linguistically sensitive and supportive for their needs and goals
Breastfeeding · Citizen journalism · Honor · Participatory action research · Photovoice · Solidarity · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences · Community Health and Development · Participatory Visual Research Methods
Mothers’ Milk
Flowing With the River’s Go
Participatory Action Research
Participatory Action Research
Photovoice
‘[S]he could … spare one ample breast for the profit of her owner’
Examining Associations Between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Ever Breastfed Children, NHANES 1999–2020
Examining racism in health services research
Improving The Measurement Of Structural Racism To Achieve Antiracist Health Policy
From doing to writing action research
Zining as artful method
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |