Milk Shock Research Project

We surveyed over 1500 new moms about how they juggled work, new motherhood, and the world of COVID. Check out our (free) research newsletter to read our preliminary findings about how moms navigated this period and what it might mean in 2025.

"It has made it way harder to be a mom" New Motherhood during COVID and Why it Matters in 2025

Gig work has been around for a long time, but what did it mean for new moms during the COVID pandemic? Check out our recent research newsletter to see what we're learning about gigs, feeding infants, and workplace shocks during the pandemic.

The Many Gigs of the Working Mom How new moms juggle work, gig work, and breastfeeding

Preliminary results from our interviews with US moms are in! You can read about it in our research newsletter at the link below.

COVID, workin' moms, and feeding babies: What we learned from our interviews with US Moms Note: the research updates in this newsletter are preliminary/interim and haven’t been peer-reviewed. Please stay tuned for final results! Milk Shock: The COVID & Infant Feeding Research Project is a multi-year, multi-phase project. Our goal is to better understand how COVID affected infant feedin...

Are you interested in hearing more from the Milk Shock Project? Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Every 1-2 months, we will send around a short update on the progress and findings of the project. Each update will explore our key question: How did COVID affect early motherhood (especially breastfeeding, return to work, and childcare)? Sign up at the link below!

Milk Shock Project: Research Updates | Virginia Kotzias | Substack A short newsletter providing updates every 1-2 months on the progress and findings of the Milk Shock Research Project. Each update will explore our key question: How did COVID affect early motherhood (esp. breastfeeding, return to work, and childcare)? Click to read Milk Shock Project: Research Upda...

Motherhood Uncensored, a UK-based charity that aims to “share brazenly honest stories about real experiences….and challeng[e] misconceptions about motherhood,” recently invited the Milk Shock Project to an interview. It was a new experience to be on the other side of the interviewer’s table!

We discussed some of the high-level findings from Milk Shock project so far, and took a short detour through the history of breastfeeding experiences and narratives in the West. Check out a summary of our discussion at the link below!

Breastfeeding is easy, right? Debunking breastfeeding myths and examining the impact of Covid on feeding choices.