As a public health doctor, I always just assumed ‘breast is best’. I wasn’t surprised that during my pregnancy I was flooded with information about the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding and directed to multiple sources of breastfeeding support. I was shocked then, when my five-day-old daughter was readmitted to hospital with serious health issues due to feeding difficulties that could have been avoided with formula milk.
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Telling My Own Story
I have wanted to write my ‘infant feeding story’ for years. After all, I co-founded Infant Feeding Alliance and helped in a small way with contributions to a new book by my friends at the Fed is Best Foundation. Clearly I have a story or, perhaps more accurately, stories to tell.
Continue reading “Telling My Own Story”One Mother’s Recent Experience of Postnatal Care
A parent contacted us through Facebook and asked us to share her recent, mixed experience of care around infant feeding. We are honoured to do so and thank this mother, whose identifying details we have anonymised here:
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