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Thank you to Neve Spicer , Founder & Director of WeTheParents.org for this guest blog. ‘The banners and party balloons for World Breastfeeding Week 2018 are just about to be taken down. Once again, the world tipped its hat to breastfeeding mamas everywhere, we feel this is the perfect time to raise an issue that has gone largely ignored […]

My regular readers will be aware that I am an advocate for breast feeding. Even when my mental health was deteriorating as a new mother, it was the one thing that I could do well and only I could give my son. Having to be hospitalised without my son ‘stole’ this very special experience from […]

One of my regular clients asked me to research and present a keynote on ‘Postnatal depression and its effects on breastfeeding’. I found it to be fascinating and discovered all the relevant research and theory around it. I have delivered it successfully five times in the last couple of months. It has also meant that […]

>Today I am speaking to staff at the Wexham hospital at Slough and have been asked to focus on breastfeeding and postnatal depression. In doing so I have collated some of the latest developments around the subject. I breast fed Dominic and it remains one of my favourite experiences EVER! The closeness, the bond, the […]

It is quite incredible that my ‘baby’ is 21 years old today! I wanted to share this post to encourage those of you who may currently be struggling with a perinatal mental illness or even as a new parent facing sleepless nights! The joy of parenting can be possible. Initially though allow me a moment of […]