Table 2

Most typical and antitypical words for each class extracted by Alceste

Classes (% of the classified ECUs)Typical words (χ2)Antitypical words
Class 1: ‘health staff’ (22.7%)Nurse (181), parent (135), to care (120), unit (115), room (93), social (91), to meet (91), help (80), to discuss (69), thing (66), psychologist/psychology (65), to speak (56), team (55), observation (51)Milk, to pump, breast, to breastfeed, skin, to give birth
Class 2: ‘skin to skin care’ (20%)Skin (260), fear (195), to touch (164), hand (162), diaper (146), care (122), to feel (83), little (76), to caress (76), to reassure (63), relation (62), to change (62), baby (54), movement (57), bath (54), sense (53), fragile/fragility (53)Milk, to breastfeed, to pump, breast, week
Class 3: ‘breastfeeding’ (11.9%)Milk (987), to breastfeed (972), motherly (418), to give (329), to pump (182), bottle (135), breast (130), decision (117), antibody (117), choice (98), plan (88), duration (78), image (71), to disturb (68), opinion (67), cow (65), artificial (65)Little, care, parents, skin, unit
Class 4: ‘expression of milk’ (11%)To pump (449), milk (348), night (312), to wake up (281), breast (253), to suck (208), tiredness/tired (187), to sleep (178), quantity (154), hour (137), bottle (134), fridge (89), to try (84), finger (77), to increase (76), to constrain (76), bed (70)Child, to speak, to give birth, to reassure
Class 5: ‘family circle’ (7.6%)Friend (431), sister (403), brother (365), family (323), grandparents (248), circle (182), close relation (158), mother (105), to come (81), grand-mother (78), cousin (75), school (69), announcement (64), person (63), parents (59), boy (55), family (55)Milk, nurse, to explain, care, hour
Class 6: ‘delivery’ (26.7%)To give birth (272), week (200), pregnancy (172), risk (146), caesarean (146), contraction (102), surgery (90), birth (89), echography (74)Milk, to breastfeed, to pump, to give, nurse, breast
  • ECU, elementary contextual unit.