Better support than a Maternity Bra! How peer support helps new breastfeeding mothers
Being a new mother can be an incredibly exciting time in a woman’s life. For many the experience of bringing a new baby into the world is one of the greatest joys imaginable – but, as many of us know, new babies aren’t all sweet smiles and cute cuddles.
One challenges new Mums in particular face is navigating the world of breastfeeding!
La Trobe University have been trailing a peer based support method for new mums in an attempt to provide some much needed infrastructure for information sharing and moral support and early trials have yielded some interesting findings.
Della Forster, Professor of Midwifery and Maternity Service Research at La Trobe’s Judith Lumley Centre joined Alex James on International Womens Day to chat about what this means for new mothers.
