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A Breastfeeding Journey 

Emma Robson, a mother who knows first-hand why breastfeeding support matters, shares her story with us. Breastfeeding is easy, breastfeeding is natural, breastfeeding is best! All statements I came across while pregnant and I certainly wanted to give breastfeeding a go but didn’t want to pressure … [Read more...]

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Amy Brown Asks: What Will It Take For Governments To Really Invest In Breastfeeding?

We are proud to host this blog post by our friend Amy Brown. Professor Amy Brown is an Associate Professor in Child Public Health in the Department of Public Health, Policy and Social Sciences at Swansea University, UK. Her research explores the psychology of maternal and infant health and … [Read more...]

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A Mary-Eyed View of CBA

Mary, one of our regular Breastfeeding Counsellor staff writes about what working at CBA means to her. What a great place Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance is for mums, partners and grandparents to come and talk about what is happening for them and their babies or toddlers. We all know that having … [Read more...]

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A father’s view on breastfeeding

We are delighted to share a guest post from Tom Bashford. Tom's son and wife, Cat, came to one of our drop-ins for support in the early days. Breastfeeding. A simple biological transaction between mother and newborn to get calories into the little one, and a subject it’s hard to imagine being … [Read more...]

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Freeze frame updated – a view from one of the breastfeeding counsellors

Freeze frame - a view from one of the breastfeeding counsellors of a moment at the drop-in I took a moment the other day in the busyness and noise in the middle of the drop-in. I sat back – on the floor with my legs going numb, where I had just been talking for a while with a mother and her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: counselling, drop in stories Tagged With: baby, blog, breastfeeding, counselling, justine, mother, support

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