Below we have shared extracts from evaluations of projects in Coventry, Cheshire & Merseyside and Manchester. If you have participated in a project and would like to share your thoughts with us, please get in touch below.
This is hands down one of the best things I’ve done since becoming a mum. It’s got all the benefits of a social group to meet other mums but is fundamentally about reflecting on and sharing our experiences of breastfeeding, something that there is little space/time for normally.
— Manchester Mother, 2023
‘I think it did so much to improve my mental health in this moment, to feel seen and human. It made me feel like it’s possible to continue being creative whilst taking care of my baby. Thank you’.
— Manchester Mother, 2023
‘…my partner really found it beneficial and he kept saying …’I actually really enjoyed today I
actually enjoyed today’. And when we first got there, I thought this is not gonna be for him.
This is not gonna be for him… he just kept saying ‘I’m so proud, I’m so proud’
— Cheshire & Merseyside Mother, 2022
‘It might be difficult emotionally at times, but the support was amazing, so I definitely got
more out of it than I could have expected.’
— Cheshire & Merseyside Mother, 2022
‘It was just… I’m getting goosebumps thinking about it. It was just so powerful…’
— Cheshire & Merseyside Mother, 2022
‘I was actually really nervous about the photoshoot. I hate having my
photos taken and it was so relaxed and so lovely. it was just nice and the photos are just
natural, like they’re not staged….they’re so raw… this is feeding, this is breastfeeding and its
so lovely.’
— Cheshire & Merseyside Mother, 2022
‘I think just sort of having the opportunity to sort of tell, tell your story and process it and hear other people’s stories was incredibly valuable and…because you don’t hear those stories anywhere’
— Cheshire & Merseyside Mother, 2022
I really enjoyed sharing my story with Lisa. To have the opportunity to talk to someone genuinely interested in our breastfeeding journey was lovely, especially when we have been doing it for so long, and I don’t really get asked about it anymore.
— Coventry Mother, 2021
‘The interview experience was good, Lisa made me feel at ease and it felt like more of a conversation rather than an interview.’
— Coventry Mother, 2021
‘I think once your child is a certain age people don’t ask about pregnancy, the birth and newborn stages, but the emotion is still very present for me, perhaps because I am ‘still’ breastfeeding’.
— Coventry Mother, 2021
‘It’s made me more proud of breastfeeding but also aware of my PTSD around birth’.
— Coventry Mother, 2021
‘Rachel led the workshops amazingly, she gave us great tips and tricks to get our creative minds working. She developed a wonderful safe group where we all shared our experiences with so much openness.’
— Coventry Mother, 2021
‘It was great to hear everyone’s stories and gave me the opportunity to creatively get stuff off my chest…. Really inspiring’.
— Coventry Mother, 2021
‘I think this project has given me an outlet for all the emotion tied up with pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and being a mother. It feels great to be part of something so celebratory. I feel empowered as a woman and energised to meet the other mothers and I am so thankful to Lisa for giving me the opportunity to be part of this. Not to mention the beautiful portraits to share with family and treasure.’
— Coventry Mother, 2021