Breastfeeding & Beyond - Dr Melody Jackson

28/05/2026

This week is an opportunity to keep learning, keep listening, and keep asking how we can do better — not only during Reconciliation Week, but every day within our clinics, hospitals, communities, and systems.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
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14/05/2026

After a whirlwind of a month, I’m belatedly reflecting on the recent Breastfeeding Medicine Network of Australia and New Zealand national conference , held here in Sydney.

I’m honoured to have spoken on maternal ni**le pain, and to have joined the international panel discussion on breastfeeding medicine training and the evolving role of breastfeeding medicine physicians across different countries.

Most of all, I loved soaking up the genuine friendships that I have gained through this beautiful community of practitioners.

One of the things I value most about this community is the willingness to keep learning from each other — across disciplines, experiences, and borders — all with the shared goal of improving care for mothers and babies.

Thank you to the organisers, panel members, and everyone who contributed to such thoughtful conversations over the weekend.

10/05/2026

To the mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers, foster mothers, adoptive mothers, carers, and those quietly mothering others in ways the world does not always see —
Happy Mother’s Day.

What children remember most is rarely perfection.
It is who stayed.

04/05/2026

It was such a privilege to be on the panel with these incredible breastfeeding medicine doctors from around the world!

Our last talk before lunch in an International Panel of Breastfeeding Medicine Doctors discussing a range of topics including pathways to achieving specialist recognition around the world.

Chaired by Dr Marnie Rowan, GP IBCLC from WA and Chair of BMNANZ and participants included Dr Elien Rouw, past President of both Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and the European Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine; Dr Yvonne Le Fort, a New Zealand and Canadian breastfeeding medicine doctor who has been an ABM Board Member, Dr Anne Eglash, a family medicine breastfeeding medicine doctor in the USA who was involved in the establishment of the North America Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine, and Dr Melody Jackson, a GP IBCLC from Sydney who sits on both the ABM and the BMNANZ Board.

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26/04/2026

Les we forget.

13/04/2026

This afternoon we had a spontaneous little bushwalking at sunset. Between a busy day in clinic and wanting to rush home to do the evening routine, it was the little reset and connection that I didn’t know we needed

07/04/2026

Acceptance is not passive.
It is active, intentional, and ongoing.

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05/04/2026

There is no evidence that babies who have formula sleep better, despite this being a common reason for tired parents to introduce a bottle of formula before bed.

Formula milk marketing exploits parental anxieties about common infant behaviours such as fussiness or poor sleep.

Premium branding is paraded as having 'premium benefits', when in fact the only difference is the price.

Claims made by the formula milk industry about their products are often misleading, scientifically unsubstantiated & violate the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

WHO is calling on governments to end exploitative marketing and protect babies’ health.

02/04/2026

Capability vs Capacity
You are capable of amazing things.
You are strong, skilled, loving, and resourceful.
But capability and capacity are not the same.
Capability is what you can do.
Capacity is what you can manage right now,
in this season, with this body, this sleep, this support.
Sometimes our capability stays the same,
but our capacity shrinks —
from exhaustion, stress, grief, or simply the relentlessness of caregiving.
That doesn’t make you less. It makes you human.
You don’t have to do everything you could do.
You only have to do what’s possible today.
The rest can wait.
Be gentle with your capacity.
It expands again, in time. 🌿

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