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DAME SARAH STOREY ON NATURAL TERM BREASTFEEDING
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BREASTFEEDING THROUGH IVF
The importance of supporting women who haven’t been able to meet their breastfeeding goals Professor Amy Brown, ABM Breastfeeding Counsellor
We don’t really need research to physiological protection throughout tell us that a positive breastfeeding the body. Breastfeeding helps experience can be an amazing boost maintain the hormone levels the for maternal mental health. Anyone body would expect after birth, who has met their breastfeeding keeps levels of oxytocin raised and goals knows that although it can be can help the body combat tough, the rewards are usually inflammation caused by a lack of worth it. Even when everything else sleep or pain after the birth1. All feels like its falling apart, these factors – psychological and breastfeeding can be a life raft. A physiological - help explain the common message emerging from lower levels of postnatal depression my research is often ‘Breastfeeding in women who breastfeed2. felt like the one thing I got right’. But although breastfeeding can be Likewise, from a scientific beautiful, sadly, we know that far perspective, we can see the too many women struggle to have