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....
Dr Wendy Jones, The Breastfeeding Network’s pharmacist, awarded MBE in Queen’s New Year’s Honours List
One of the founding members of the Breastfeeding Network (BfN), and our resident Pharmacist for over 20 years, Dr Wendy Jones, has been awarded MBE...
Facing Fears
Kirsty Cummins is one of our National Breastfeeding Helpline Link workers, who has written this post about her own experience of anxiety and how she...
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...
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...
Breastfeeding was my lifeline while struggling with PTSD
I could barely hold the funnel to my breast. My hands, swollen and numb grasped as hard as they could, my body weak, hardly had...
The Breastfeeding Network and Support for Mothers with Mental Health Issues
Wendy Jones is BfN’s Pharmacist for our Drugs in Breastmilk Service. Here she talks about how we support mums with mental health issues, and points...
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...