This was sent to me by one of the loveliest women I know. She’s an experienced doula and runs antenatal classes in North London - including special ones for parents expecting multiples. Thank you very much, Mars!
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I’m the mother of twins who are almost 4. I breastfed them until they were 18 months. The choice [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how when you have a new baby, everybody’s got their own little pearls of wisdom for you. Depending on various things - their generation, their ideas about bringing up babies, their own personality - this advice can range from very helpful to out and out lunacy. Unfortunately, a lot [...]
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Following on from the positive stories, here is the place to leave your stories of negative contacts with health professionals about breastfeeding. From many I’ve already read, I know there’s a massive number of these - my hope is that by posting them here, under the banner of “unacceptable and ill-informed things for health professionals [...]
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I thought it would be interesting to have a list of all the positive things you’d heard from health professionals about breastfeeding. Hopefully, one day, the positive will outweigh the negative <dreams>
I’ll start - there’s a nurse at my GP practice who is very impressed I was still breastfeeding my youngest son when he was [...]
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