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Buy the book: Supporting Breastfeeding Past the First Six Months and Beyond | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - USA
Buy the book: Supporting Breastfeeding Past the First Six Months and Beyond | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - USA
This evidence-based guide for professionals covers essential information to help support parents breastfeeding past the first six months, including starting solids alongside breastfeeding, nursing manners, and common problems and challenges.The recommendation of breastfeeding beyond six months is well-established, but many birth professionals don't feel confident enough to support parents. This book, packed with case studies of real-life parents and practical tips, helps to educate healthcare professionals - as well as parents themselves - to feel better informed. Each chapter combines professional, research-led evidence with a parent-focused resource section for a fully integrative approach.Centring families and their personal journeys, Supporting Breastfeeding Past the First Six Months and Beyond is an invaluable guide for all lactation consultants, birthing professionals, healthcare workers and parents.
Buy the book: Supporting the Transition from Breastfeeding | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK
Buy the book: Supporting the Transition from Breastfeeding | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK
This comprehensive and accessible guide provides birth workers and lactation professionals with the skills to help families navigate the emotional and physical challenges of weaning. Using a compassionate, person-centred approach that prioritises the needs of both mother and child, this pioneering resource details the emotional impact of weaning and offers practical guidance and expert advice suitable for professionals and parents alike in order to facilitate complex decision-making processes and set healthy boundaries.Enriched with the voices of parents talking about their individual weaning experiences, this is a much-needed, empathetic approach to the complex journey of weaning.
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In the UK, Support an independent bookshop: The Story of Jessie's Milkies
In the UK, Support an independent bookshop: The Story of Jessie's Milkies
Breastfeeding ends differently for every family and parents who continue nursing beyond babyhood sometimes benefit from a little extra support. An exploration of three different journeys for three-year-old Jessie: parent-led weaning, child-led weaning and a tandem feeding story with a new baby in the picture.Thoughtful, warm and inclusive book explores emotions around the ending of breastfeeding.
Buy via Amazon, “The Story of Jessie’s Milkies”
Buy via Amazon, “The Story of Jessie’s Milkies”
Buy The Story of Jessie's Milkies: A Weaning Book for Breastfeeding Toddlers and Older Children by Pickett, Emma, Ford, Jojo (ISBN: 9781036914936) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, author, podcaster and weaning & natural term breastfeeding specialist supporting families in North London and beyond.
The dangerous obsession with the infant feeding interval
The dangerous obsession with the infant feeding interval
London group for 11m+ (dates and info here)
London group for 11m+ (dates and info here)
Free training 21st Sept 2026 - Request to join session on tandem feeding
Free training 21st Sept 2026 - Request to join session on tandem feeding
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Guide to ending breastfeeding (article for BfN)
Guide to ending breastfeeding (article for BfN)
Emma Pickett IBCLC Making the decision to end breastfeeding Breastfeeding support is all about helping you to breastfeed for as long as you want to. We want families to reach their breastfeeding goals, and that means Breastfeeding Supporters are here for parents at the end of their breastfeeding experience, as well as at the start. […]
Breastfeeding through pregnancy and beyond
Breastfeeding through pregnancy and beyond
Emma Pickett is the chair of the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers, and also works as a lactation consultant. Here we share her article on breastfeeding through pregnancy, and potentially continuing to breastfeed two (or more!) children, known as tandem nursing. Let’s imagine you are breastfeeding your toddler and you discover you’re pregnant. It’s a much […]
Toddler twiddling — Emma Pickett IBCLC
Toddler twiddling — Emma Pickett IBCLC
If you spend 10 minutes in a social media group where breastfeeding older children is the norm, you’ll come across the topic of toddler twiddling. Toddlers enjoy fiddling generally: the little plastic figure in their hand, the toy car, your car keys, your glasses. It’s how they explore their world,
"Don't offer, don't refuse"
"Don't offer, don't refuse"
When a mother decides it’s time to end breastfeeding and she looks for information online, she’s likely to come across the phrase, “Don’t offer, Don’t refuse.” Many sources describe this as a ‘weaning technique’. At least some are prepared to admit this is a ‘gentle weaning technique’. I would like
Do minutes matter?
Do minutes matter?
A new mum is asking for help. Her 8-week-old baby is refusing the breast and every feed is turning into a battle. She can get him to feed ‘a little’ and nappies seem OK for the moment but she’s worried that her supply will soon decrease and he’s going to have weight gain problems. Breast refusal ca
Explore my blog discussing breastfeeding challenges and solutions
Explore my blog discussing breastfeeding challenges and solutions
Explore my blog for more than a decade's worth of articles discussing breastfeeding challenges and solutions
Low Milk Supply 101
Low Milk Supply 101
Forgive me for asking but... Do you REALLY have low milk supply? This is a very important place to start. Please bear with me. I don’t mean to doubt your situation and be annoying patronising lactation consultant woman but it’s crucial to note that the MAJORITY of new mothers who fear they have lo
Flat nipples
Flat nipples
Two mothers have flat nipples. One, in her first conversation about breastfeeding antenatally, was told by a health professional looking at her nipples, “You won’t get any milk out of those!” The second was told by a breastfeeding counsellor when pregnant, “It’s called breastfeeding, not nipple-fe
Is this normal? The first week with a newborn
Is this normal? The first week with a newborn
Find a guided bedtime meditation for weaning here
Find a guided bedtime meditation for weaning here
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