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Birth trauma leads to negative mental health and wellbeing outcomes for women, their children and their partners. Impacts on maternal mental health and wellbeing include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), post-partum depression (PPD) and bonding issues but also potential for post-traumatic growth (PTG). Traumatic births can have a negative impact on breastfeeding experiences due to poorer maternal physical and psychological wellbeing. If breastfeeding does not go as planned, it can be associated with a sense of failure, guilt or shame. Therefore, infant feeding experiences may have the potential to either heal or compound the impact of traumatic births on maternal mental health and well-being. Methods The guidelines for scoping reviews from the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis will be followed. A key word search strategy will be used to search: Academic Search Complete; APA PsychInfo; MEDLINE; CINAHL and APA PsychArticles databases; Google scholar, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) website. English language and date restrictions (2000-current) will be used. Studies will be screened in Covidence by two independent reviewers. Titles and abstracts and full-text articles will be independently screened by two reviewers. Data will be extracted and presented graphically using figures and tables. Narrative summary text will accompany the tables and figures. 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