Annie Seymour - Certified Breastfeeding Specialist

30/11/2025

13/11/2025

This is always one of my favourite facts to whip out about breastfeeding.

Your baby’s saliva talks to your body. 🤯
If they’re sick, your milk strengthens.
If they’re thirsty, it changes.
If they need comfort, it adapts again.
It’s not “just milk.” It’s a conversation only the two of you can have. 💜🤱

11/11/2025

THIS! Finally, a breastfeeding conference in the SEA region, and tickets are just $100 for the three-day event at the moment(!!). If you work in maternal-child health, support breastfeeding families, or love wonking out about lactation, then this is a phenomenal chance to hear from leading speakers right here in our hood. And the topics speak my love-language

We’re thrilled to share that Early Bird tickets for the IBFAN Southeast Asia Breastfeeding Conference 2026 are now officially open! 🎉

🗓 Dates: 26–28 November 2026
📍 Location: Bangkok, Thailand

This first-of-its-kind gathering will bring together 250–350 passionate changemakers — policymakers, civil society leaders, healthcare professionals, researchers, mothers, youth advocates, and partners from across Southeast Asia and beyond — to celebrate, learn, and reimagine how we can protect, promote, and support breastfeeding together.

Over three inspiring days, we’ll dive into the theme “Empowering Families, Sustaining Futures” through three interconnected pillars:

🌐 Day 1: Safeguarding Breastfeeding in the Digital Age

🌿 Day 2: Breastfeeding in a Changing Climate

⚖️ Day 3: Systems that Support, Rights that Protect�

Expect high-level plenaries, hands-on workshops, youth engagement, storytelling from lived experiences, and plenty of opportunities to connect and collaborate.

To make this milestone event possible, we’re starting with a special early bird rate of only US$100 for the first 200 tickets — exclusively for our IBFAN SEA family and IBFAN SEA newsletter subscribers, including our friends in Australia!

Your early registration helps us bring this dream to life — from securing the venue and building our website, to confirming our amazing speakers and programme.

Hurry! Early bird pricing is available until 31 March 2026 or while stocks last.

https://give.asia/campaign/seabc2026 #/story

03/10/2025

01/10/2025

A little bingo for which of these you can tick off during your breastfeeding journey!

09/09/2025

Ever woken up from a bleary night of infant feeding, to find your baby unexpectedly happily snuggled up with you? There's a morning for most new mums when they realise they've fallen asleep with our baby in bed - and... that it's lovely. But you're getting mixed messages: you and your baby love it, but is it ok...? I made a handout to help.

04/09/2025

🌸New parent? Looking for connection and support? 🌸
Bangkok Breastfeeding Cafe is back - a weekly hangout for parents + babies (however they're fed). No judgment, just community, conversation, and evidence based support. Hosted this week by Lia Segall - Lactation Counseling Bangkok

📍Bumpsy Daisy Cafe, Thursdays, 10:30 am.
☕Free to attend (just treat yourself at the café!).

Let's build our village together 💜

01/09/2025

Do you know that feeling when you wake up in the middle of the night and it’s cold and your diaper feels heavy. And there are so many strange sounds all around you, and it’s dark and scary. And you get a hit in your head and it’s your hand that’s on its own adventure. And you can’t control it at all and it flings itself around and scratches your face and pulls at your hair.
And your legs start kicking off the duvet, even though you’re cold as it is and you try to make it stop but they have their own will.
And so you’re lying there completely helpless with flailing limbs that want to do everything, but none of the things you want.

And you can’t find mom. And you call for her and you find yourself feeling really scared. What if your beloved mom doesn’t come for you. You can’t imagine anything worse and you start to cry because you miss her so terribly. You have never felt as alone as this very moment.

And then she is suddenly there. Standing right by your bed and looking at you with worry and love. And she is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. And you grin up at her with happiness and relief. You don’t think you’ve ever felt as happy as this very moment.

And she picks you up and holds you close. And she smells like herself, and also a bit like you. Like milk and safety and love. And it’s the best smell in the whole entire world.

And she is warm and safe and soft and her hands caress you and she feeds you and hums your favourite tune. And you love her voice. You’ve known it far longer than you’ve really known her. It has lulled you to sleep and made you laugh and calmed you when you were distressed. It is the most beautiful voice in the whole entire world.

And you get to lie right up against her and you feel your entire body start to warm up again. And your still cold hand starts stroking her and moves up towards her neck and accidentally scratches her. Stupid uncontrollable hand. But mom doesn’t get angry. She takes your stupid hand in hers and it turns all warm again. And this is the best feeling in the world. Right here in mommy’s arms, with your hand in hers. Even the diaper doesn’t feel as horrible anymore.

And you feel your eyes getting heavy and you know that everything is okay now cause mommy is here. Your mom. Your wonderful, incredible mom who always looks after you. Night and day.

You look up at her one last time before you fall asleep. She looks tired and her eyes are closed, and yet she is still the most magnificent thing you know. How amazing that she wants to sit here with you in this moment. How amazing that she will always sit with you for a bit when you need her to.

You smile to yourself. How lucky you were that she became your mom. The most perfect mom anyone could have asked for.
You knew, even before you saw her, that she would be the best thing in the world.

Oh how you love her. Your mom.💖

( ✍️ Nicolas Geusens )

Photo credit : Sara Trickett

31/05/2025

15/02/2025

Iceland (The supermarket!) have started to place information cards under their formula shelves, telling people that the ingredients are (pretty much) the same, regardless of the brand you buy. I haven't looked deeply into their reasons for this, or the charity they've teamed up with, but on the surface my initial reaction is that this seems to be a great move.

Formula ingredients and composition in the UK are strictly monitored, meaning that if something is known to be important it has to be included, and in the right amount. This means that despite some common and lingering ideas that a couple of more expensive brands are "better" they are in fact almost identical to cheaper brands. (And often even made on the same production line but just put into a different package!)

Making this information better known can help parents to make decisions that have less financial impact on their family and helps to lower the anxiety we often see around switching between brands if the one you usually go for is unavailable.

What are your thoughts? Is this a step towards helping families make more informed choices about the milk they feed their babies, or should we be cynical about a big brand doing something like this? 🤔

12/12/2024

Are you or a friend preparing to give birth? I produced a handout to help my pregnant mums in the first 24h of breastfeeding: something to pop in the hospital bag and refer to when they need it. I realised that it might be good to share it here, so anyone can access it if helpful.

And let me know what do YOU wish you’d known for the first 24h?!