We believe breastfeeding is everyone's business and all health workers need a basic understanding of normal and how they can impact a breastfeeding mother positively, even in a brief encounter.
So register today for one of our Infant Feeding Essentials workshops and put your stamp on the most important public health measure any country can implement.
We offer courses for all health and allied health workers who want to ensure they support the breastfeeding mothers they encounter in their workplace.
When they are breastfeeding, mothers need accurate information and positive interactions from all health workers that is free from commercial influence. Be part of their support network and get skilled!
Our three trainers are all mothers who have breastfed 13 babies between them to natural term weaning. Together they have accumulated over 90 years of professional lactation support and education.
They are connected to experts from all over the world who stimulate and inform their existing knowledge base.
"Breastfeeding is the gift of human kindness. More than a source of nutrition, breastfeeding is an act of altruism, which promotes instincts within the mother to protect and nurture her infant in both the short and long term."
Susanna I Scurry
Breastfeeding is not rocket science! Breastfeeding rates continue to fall worldwide and are below recommended goals for optimum health. Susanna Scurry has lived breastfeeding as a mother, grandmother, midwife and lactation consultant for fifty years. Within this book she offers insights into why breastfeeding is not supported, beginning with the subjugation of women due to Australia's history as a penal colony of the British empire. Susanna writes a compelling story of how the gender specific, altruistic work of women has evolved and been impacted by religion, politics and the capitalist economic model. Susanna offers research based practical ideas to support policy makers, health professionals and breastfeeding women.
Inside this book are the most honest, intimate and vulnerable stories of more than 80 mothers, collected over five years – as well as the poignant accounts of fathers, partners and family members – who have been through the journey of feeding new babies.
Along with some helpful information on how breasts and babies work together, there is a beautiful space made here, for heart-warming, cathartic and healing stories. They are real. They are raw. They are companions for any new mother, reminding her that she’s not alone