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Amy talks about losing confidence in her body after experiencing a miscarriage and fertility issues. Then she finds confidence again with the help of the Breastfeeding Support team and a local consultant who suggests she “Bung the Baby on the Boob”. Now she’s a proud breastfeeder and peer support mentor.
“When she got weighed she’d lost about 11.5% of their birth weight. And they were like threatening like hospital and put me on a feeding plan. It was just really, really intense. I ended up pumping, breastfeeding and giving her a top of a formula as well at the beginning. And I think I’ve had more tears than actual milk in the first few days because it was just super stressful.”
Jennifer talks about breastfeeding whilst nursing her dying mother and how she never expected to feed for so long.
Michelle talks about negative attitudes to breastfeeding and how that impacted her when she had a baby with congenital heart disease. She credits one of the nurses in the NICU with changing the narrative and making it possible for her to feed her baby.
Amy talks about losing confidence in her body after experiencing a miscarriage and fertility issues. Then she finds confidence again with the help of the Breastfeeding Support team and a local consultant who suggests she “Bung the Baby on the Boob”. Now she’s a proud breastfeeder and peer support mentor.
Catherine talks about her difficulties experienced when her first baby was put on a weight gain program and how this affected her mental health.
Do it, it’s wonderful! Liz, mother of two talks about the camerarderie amongst breastfeeding mothers and how her expectations of a difficult time breastfeeding were proven wrong.
Louise, mother of four, talks about her experiences both as a breastfeeder and as a midwife.
Mother of two talks about her experiences of breastfeeding around the world, in particular her home country of America.
Imogen talks about the support that she had breastfeeding from midwives, her friends, her partner and the wider community in Brighton, England.
Bethania thinks about why breastfeeding statistics are so low and wonders about this changing in the future.
Polly talks about the importance of having a friend who breastfeeds at the beginning.
Adonia is a mother to a baby with a heart condition, cared for in the Rose Ward of Royal Brompton hospital. She talks about the support she has received from the hospital in maintaining her milk supply whilst her son underwent surgery and the benefits she feels he has had from breastmilk.
In the first podcast for The Holding Time Project Reena, mother of two, discusses her experience of motherhood as a powerful transformation.
