maternal mental health

A new year’s revolution: take time to enjoy the stillness.

Kirsty Cummins is one of our National Breastfeeding Helpline Link Workers. She has written this post about changing the perception of new year as a time...

BfN in the news: Shereen Fisher appears on BBC Woman’s Hour

Shereen Fisher, our CEO, featured in a panel discussion on BBC Woman’s Hour this week, on infant feeding experiences and how they made women feel....

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...

Supporting positive conversations about feeding choice and mental health in the perinatal period

The relationship between how a woman feeds her baby, and her perinatal mental health is a complex one. Our emotional state and mental health in...

Breastfeeding and maternal mental health

This week is maternal mental health awareness week and so it’s important that we speak up about the often misunderstood relationship between maternal mental health...