COVID-19 Infant Feeding Update – March 2020

Infant feeding leads and peer support co ordinators from across the Lancashire and South Cumbria area have brought this information together in March 2020 to support good decision making during the COVID-19 crisis. We have provided information for formula feeding and breastfeeding support on separate pages, but of course it may be that as a family you need to access … Read More

Maureen Minchin: Milk Matters

Those of our readers who have been involved in breastfeeding support for many years, will no doubt remember Maureen’s earlier books “Breastfeeding Matters” and “Food For Thought” – virtually mandatory for all breastfeeding counsellors in the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, whilst some subsequent editions of those two valued texts have been published, Maureen has gone to ground, working on … Read More

Who is buying your loyalty with their study days?

News of some potentially enticing upcoming free study events for health professionals, heavily sponsored by and attended by infant milk manufacturers, in Manchester and Birmingham. Already many of our colleagues have been talking about these study events in forums online, and students from a number of the midwifery / health visiting courses in the NW have been circulating the information …

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