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#BfNConf21 Guest Blog: Breastfeeding, Peer Support and Perinatal Mental Health

Smita Hanciles writes of the need for more cohesive support encompassing breastfeeding and perinatal mental health services. For more on this subject, come along to...

Dr Wendy Jones: Drugs in Breastmilk

One of the founding members of BfN, Dr Wendy Jones MBE has been supporting breastfeeding families for more than twenty years. As she heads towards...

#BfNConf21 Guest Blog: 10 Things You Don’t Expect About Nursing Aversion

Zainab Yate explains the often complicated phenomenon of nursing aversion. To hear more, come along to BfN’s annual conference on Saturday 2nd October, where Zainab...

Helen Ball: Sleep, Baby & You: development of a support intervention for UK families

Dr Lisa J Orchard: The Impact of Social Media on Breastfeeding

Guest Post: Ruth Dennison, Black Mothers and Breastfeeding

Ruth Dennison will be giving a presentation at our conference in October, entitled “Supporting Black women who breastfeed”. In this guest blog, she explains why...

Guest post: Lisa Creagh’s thoughts on Holding Time – overcoming the cultural stigma of breastfeeding.

“Holding Time” is an exhibition of breastfeeding photographs by Lisa Creagh, which “offers a creative reinterpretation of our concept of Time and how this influences...

Guest Blog by Smita Hanciles – The Power of Peer Support

Smita Hanciles works for Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust and leads the Camden Baby Feeding Service. Here’s a taster of her presentation...

Guest Blog by Sally Etheridge: ‘I just really wanted to breastfeed’ – How stress affects how babies are fed, and how mums feel about it.

Sally Etheridge is an IBCLC who will be giving a presentation at our conference entitled “Breastfeeding Struggles”.  Here she gives some background to the subject...

Guest Blog by Heather Trickey – What sorts of breastfeeding peer support interventions should we be developing?

Heather Trickey is a researcher in parenthood and public health at DECIPHer, Cardiff University.  Here she writes about the importance of not just implementing peer support...

Breastfeeding and Mental Health

Dr Wendy Jones is the pharmacist on our Drugs in Breastmilk service, receiving around ten thousand contacts from breastfeeding mothers every year. 20% of these...

How to make public spaces more breastfeeding friendly

Aimee Grant, PhD, is a Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow at the Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University.  She will be speaking at our conference in...