@bfn-uk.bsky.social show exactly how much skilled breastfeeding support can contribute to the goals of the #NHS10YearPlan #FitForTheFuture #BreastfeedingMatters
Zarina smiling at the camera. Text: "Sharing my story has been a way of releasing a burden and finally feeling a sense of achievement" Zarina
Would you like to share your breastfeeding story? We’d love to publish it in our bi-monthly member publication #BreastfeedingMatters. You can write your story, or we can interview you and work with you until you’re happy with it - like we did with Zarina…
We already have “an exquisitely personalised medicine at a critical moment” - #breastfeeding! Oh, whoops, that would mean supporting women and children, not VCs and private industry #BreastfeedingMatters #BabiesBeforeProfits
And on Spotify creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
or wherever you get your podcasts #BreastfeedingMatters
The Breastfeeding Matters podcast cover art featuring tiled brightly coloured cartoon boobs. Text: The LLLGB Podcast Episode 19, Adjusting to Motherhood and Becoming a Parent. Available on Spotify and Apple
Ep 19 of our #BreastfeedingMatters podcast is out now! Sarah & Maria talk with fellow LLLGB Leaders Sophia Berman & Justine Fieth about their personal early parenting journeys.
Links to listen ⬇️
"My experiences of bf and working has all been mercifully uncomplicated. With both my babies I returned to my job in a senior midwife role in an NHS hospital PT when they were about a year old." (Louise)
Get #BreastfeedingMatters & support our work by joining LLLGB today www.laleche.org.uk/join/
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Have you got your new issue of #BreastfeedingMatters, our member publication? In our May/June edition:
- Breastfeeding my cleft-affected baby
- Celebrating Pride month
- Stories from mothers who combined breastfeeding with working in the NHS.
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www.laleche.org.uk/join/
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It's #BlackBreastfeedingWeek at the end of August and we are planning another special edition of our member publication, #BreastfeedingMatters to celebrate. We would love to feature stories and contributions from Black mothers and families in this issue... #BBW2025
Really proud to announce the publication of our latest WBTi report on U.K. infant feeding policies!
#PolicyMatters
#BreastfeedingMatters
#BabiesBeforeProfits
ukbreastfeeding.org/wbtiuk2024/
🤨 Why isn’t breastfeeding treated like a public health priority?
Share your thoughts in the comments!
#ProtectPromoteNormalise
#breastfeedingmatters
Formula industry tells mums 🤱 is overwhelming, painful, exhausting, lonely. Industry prioritises profit over well-being of mothers and babies. They don’t want mums to 🤱🤱Breastfeeding is powerful. #breastfeedingmatters #KMC #MNICU
Support Baby Café Bakersfield during #GiveBigKern on May 4, 2021 because families need access to quality lactation care! Learn more at www.givebigkern.org/organizations/babycafeba... #LactationSupport #IBCLC #IBCLCcare #Breastfeeding #BreastfeedingMatters
If you're having #breastfeeding problems,use "Find A Lactation Consultant" at http://www.ilca.org #WhyIBCLC #IBCLC #breastfeedingmatters
Pumping is for the future; hand expression is for today. #TheFirst100Hours #breastfeedingmatters #bfing #IBCLC
Any bf mom who has fed formula during #TheFirst100Hours needs access to quality lactation care! #breastfeedingmatters #IBCLC
Also, where does DHAcome from? #breastfeedingmatters
No clear evidence that DHA has beneficial effects on formula-fed #babies #breastfeedingmatters mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE84T118201...