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01/08/2025

Happy World Breastfeeding Week 2025 🤱🏻

This years theme is “Prioritise breastfeeding: Create sustainable support systems.”

It's clear that a supportive community is the 🔑 to success, and it truly takes a village to make a difference!

Australian Breastfeeding Association are offering a FREE webinar for support people … targeted towards grandparents, extended family members, friends and other support people.

The webinar will include information on:

🌟Changes to breastfeeding and parenting overtime
🌟Breastfeeding works as a mother baby dyad
🌟Supporting breastfeeding as family and friends
🌟Feeding and settling baby when mum isn't around

https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/products/wbw-free-webinar-sustaining-and-supporting-breastfeeding

Free webinar Workshop time All times are scheduled in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney time, please adjust to suit your time zone. Overview World Breastfeeding Week FREE webinar Sustaining and supporting breastfeeding A webinar for support peopleJoin us during World Breastfeeding Week for our free even.....

05/03/2025

A new mum remarked to me the other day that she had never heard of a lactation consultant before she hit a breastfeeding challenge. Several weeks later breastfeeding was going well and she was thrilled to have made it over the hurdle together ...
Happy IBCLC Day to me and all my colleagues out there making a difference one breastfeed at a time ... 🤱💙🌱

05/03/2024

Happy IBCLC Day to my colleagues out there supporting families … as of 2024, there are over 37,000 IBCLCs in 134 countries. Support matters!! Helping to LATCH LOVE and GROW 💚🤱🏻 💙
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09/05/2023

To celebrate National Mothering Week … free webinar tonight for mums planning return to work 🤱🏻💙🌱

Connect & Share - Work and breastfeeding Workshop time All times are scheduled in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney time, please adjust to suit your time zone. Overview This special National Mothering Week 2023 session will provide you with information and support for managing work and breastfeeding. Lear...

01/03/2023

Happy IBCLC Day to me and my lovely colleagues round the world - helping to support mothers reach their breastfeeding goals.
I celebrated today with a home visit to a new baby and mum ... 🤱💙🌱

09/05/2022

IBCLCs need to GROW too 💚🤱🏻 💙 Professional development getting me up early … Fl**ge Fitting for Pumping with Jeanette Mesite

06/05/2022

Beautiful … LOVE 💚🤱🏻 💙

"To the mom going from loving one, to welcoming a second (or a 3rd). It’s tough, isn’t it?

Missing your older kids, when they’re standing right in front of you.

The tugs at your pants, which are really tugs at your heart, “play with me mommy!” While you’re feeding the baby, or wiping another bum.

When you have to say “in a minute sweetie.” But all you want is to scoop him up now, and tuck his head beneath your chin. Hoping he knows, I love him just the same. Maybe even more now.

Then when you find a moment, trying to make up for it all. Give a million kisses, hold the hug a little too long, pulling back as they try to escape. Hoping if you make this moment count, maybe it’ll erase all the “I can’t"s from before.

To the mom, seeing the baby before you, not so new as you remember. Wondering, is it going faster this time? It has to be, she’s already gone up a size.

Feeling sad that you don’t get to sit for hours and stare. Soak these baby days into your soul the way you did the first time around. Wishing you could capture moments and store them for when you’ve got time.

To the mom spreading love over her kids, while trying to give a little to herself too. It’s tough, I know.

And some days, you feel like you’re coming up short, I do too. But the very notion that we wonder if we are enough for them, I think, is enough tell us that we are."

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21/04/2022

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ps Sore ni***es aren't normal. Get help x

07/04/2022

Great photos - sometimes the smallest change makes this biggest difference to comfort … LATCH 💚🤱🏻 💙

So look, ideally we want to stay as hands off the breast as possible to allow the baby to do their thing. But sometimes, some breast shaping and angling can really help.

The two issues people often find they need this for is if the baby won't tip their head back, or won't open wide. I'd suggest trying some skin to skin laid back feeding first for this issue, and always make sure there's nothing on the back of their head and the ni**le starts really high up their face so that they reach up wider. Get some support with latching if you're struggling x

15/02/2022

Nature at its best … what a LATCH 💚🤱🏻 💙

07/02/2022

Beautiful… LOVE 💚🤱🏻 💙

I love doing weaning consults. I love looking at the emotional complexity of it, the balancing act of ensuring everyone's physical and emotional needs are met, of reminding this beautiful mama in front of me of all that that she has achieved and all she will continue to experience with her little one. ❤️

One thing that I need to be more vigilant about in these discussions is that post-weaning depression is a real thing. The fact that we don't tend to talk so much about weaning means that we also don't talk about the toll that weaning can have on our minds as well as our bodies.

There's another major shift going on with your hormones when you stop making milk. This can show up for us as restlessness, insomnia, irritability; other times it's weepiness and a feeling of emotional emptiness; other times it can be a loss of appetite or an inability to concentrate on anything.

Firstly, recognise what this is, recognise it's a huge hormonal wave that you're riding, and that there is no 'right' way to feel about weaning. You might be so happy and relieved about it, while also feeling really sad and nostalgic, simultaneously. You might be feeling angry and frustrated while also loving the fact that you wore a bra today with no easy access. You could feel a sense of freedom and guilt simultaneously, while also being tired and fidgety at the same time.... it's a bit of a tornado! It's great if you're able to discuss these feelings with your friend or your partner, to feel less alone, and don't forget that you can always reach out for help from your obgyn and your doctor. So many have been there before you, have tumbled over those waves and have come out on the other side to find themselves sitting on the couch cuddling their little boy, reading a story together, just snuggling and smiling.

(This artwork is "A Goodnight Hug" by Mary Stevenson Cassatt)

01/01/2022

May all your breastfeeding wishes come true in 2022 ✨... looking forward to supporting you as you GROW with your baby ...