Charnwood BRAS

A Q&A with Angie Bell, Infant Feeding Co-ordinator It’s National Breastfeeding Celebration Week and as this year’s theme is “Breastfeeding during COVID19”, we thought we’d catch up with Angie Bell, one of our lovely Infant Feeding Co-ordinators for a chat about how Coronavirus has affected her day to day work. Hi Angie, thanks for taking the time to talk to us! For people who don’t know you, can you tell us a little more about what an Infant Feeding Co-ordinator…

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Written for Maternal Mental Health Week 4-10th May 2020 For this maternal mental health week, we caught up with our peer supporter Kelly in her pharmacist role to have a chat about some of the help available for breastfeeding mothers who need to take medication for a perinatal mental health condition. In her day job, Kelly is an incredibly skilled specialist pharmacist for the UK Drugs in Lactation Advisory Service. Kelly has worked for UKDILAS for 9 years and graduated…

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Hi, my name is Lucy. I am mum to a little girl and a little boy, seven and four, with my third due in September. When I had my daughter in 2010 I had a really positive experience breastfeeding her; I was one of the lucky people who found it all came pretty naturally, and after only a few days of figuring out what I was doing I was away and didn’t look back! I had always intended to breastfeed,…

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Hi, I’m Harriet and I’m a mum to two children aged 4 and 2. When I was expecting my first child Florence, I’d never given much thought to how I was going to feed my baby… of course I was going to breastfeed! But it became apparent that it might not come as naturally as I was expecting. After hearing tales of milk drying up, sore nipples and poor latches I started to research my support options. I heard about…

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Hi I’m Charlotte, single mum of a 6-going on 16yr old-daughter and a 3 year old son. I remember being pregnant with my daughter and being asked if I was planning to breastfeed or bottle feed, I remember turning my nose up as if breastfeeding was for aliens and answered “bottle feed of course”; I had just turned 19 when she was born and as I lifted her out of the water I naturally put her straight to my breast…

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Hi! I’m Paulina, proud wife & mother of three boys aged 7, nearly 5 and nearly 3 years. Our life is a bit of a circus, but we never get bored 😉 I have fed them all for different lengths of time, from 12 months to nearly 3 years! I have combi fed at times and also exclusively breastfed as soon as I was able to. I have pumped upon returning to work all three times and have overcome cracked…

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Hi, my name is Catherine and I am mummy to Phoebe nearly 8 years, Hugh nearly 3 years and Fletcher 17 months. I briefly started my breastfeeding journey when Phoebe was born, however with limited knowledge of the support available to me I gave up after 8 days. When I was pregnant with Hugh I was determined to make breast feeding a success and with a friend already a BRA I knew I would have the support and knowledge available….

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  Hi I’m Lydia and I am a Peer Supporter for the Charnwood BRAS. I am Mummy to 3 boys aged 13, 7 and 2 and I have breastfed them all until different stages. I was 19 when I had my eldest son and always wanted to try breastfeeding. Being in my late teens I came across a lot of negative comments from people. This made me more determined to try and we did it for 6 months until he…

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