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Induced Lactation My wife and I started fertility treatment a couple of years ago and after trying reciprocal IVF (so my frozen eggs were transferred to my wife) we fell pregnant. At our booking ...

https://lcgb.org/induced-lactation/

Some LCGB members have been letting us know what they have been doing during COVID to help support the families who may have been affected by changes to services.   ANTENATAL WORKSHOPS ONLINE Th...

https://lcgb.org/ibclcs-volunteering-during-covid-pandemic/

April 2020 Lactation Consultants of Great Britain (LCGB), along with partners Peppy and NCT, is delighted to announce our involvement in an innovative new digital platform to support new parents ...

https://lcgb.org/lcgb-covid-19-support-new-parents/

Fifteen national infant feeding organisations including LCGB, issued a joint statement calling on the new government to invest in the health of women and children by supporting and protecting bre...

https://lcgb.org/joint-statement-on-protecting-breastfeeding/

Click here to access the pdf of this new book, to share with medical students and qualified doctors The post Supporting mothers who breastfeed: A guide for trainee and qualified doctors, by Ass...

https://lcgb.org/supporting-mothers-who-breastfeed-a-guide-for-trainee-and-qualified-doctors-by-associate-lcgb-member-patricia-wise/

Lactation Consultants of Great Britain social media team focused a week on the climate strike in September 2019.  Our posts reached over 35,000 people and had over 200 shares on Facebook.  Inst...

https://lcgb.org/how-green-in-your-babys-milk-guest-blog-by-gillian-weaver-and-natalie-shenker/

Black Breastfeeding Week The MBRRACE Report showed that maternal and infant mortality is much higher in BAME families, and that maternal mortality among black mothers in the U.K. is FIVE TIMES hi...

https://lcgb.org/black-breastfeeding-week-2019-one-mum-tells-her-story/

Guest blog by Lyndsey Hookway, IBCLC Although breastfeeding can be a thorny issue for many, the fact remains that the vast majority of women who start off breastfeeding but stop feel a sense of s...

https://lcgb.org/guest_blog_lh_ibclc_abm_resources/

National Breastfeeding Week 2019 SCOTLAND This year Scotland literally kicked off Breastfeeding Weeks across the UK, with the launch of their new Scotland breastfeeding welcome scheme at Dundee F...

https://lcgb.org/nbaw-2019-round-up/

My name is Darcie, and I am a mother of two. I was 18 years old when I first started breastfeeding. I only knew one other person that breastfed and so I was completely oblivious to how difficult ...

https://lcgb.org/nbaw-2019-young-mum-story/