Breastfeeding Support

Being parents is part of the natural course of human beings's life.

Yet, it doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Breastfeeding is the biological norm of infant feeding for us - mammals.

Yet, the nuclearisation of modern families doesn't make it easy: we become mothers, parents, without having seen too many babies breastfeed. Add to it the effects of the industrial era we are living in, with aggressive marketing by formula and bottle making companies and the hyper medicalisation of our society. Profit dominated health care services give far too little importance to keeping their personnel updated with good and reliable breastfeeding support skills and current birth practices are not conducive to an easy breastfeeding start.

We too often hear of mothers facing breastfeeding problems and people too often and too easily end up thinking that breastmilk might not be sufficient .

Bottle feeding has sadly become the norm for too many urban middle class mothers.

Indeed, cases of REAL incapacity to produce enough milk are extremely rare (less than 3% of the overal world women population!).

What we miss is the right help at the right time - besides a bit of patience, confidence and encouragement.

The last two generations have witnessed a loss of expertise in breastfeeding due to several sociological changes.

Mothers face more and more breastfeeding challenges and find little or no reliable help to tackle them.

Wrong advices too often aggravate an initially small difficulty.

It is important to make sure that breastfeeding advice comes from a reliable and updated source, like a certified lactation consultant (IBCLC).