Our breastfeeding groups - Breastfeeding Older Babies and Beyond (BOBAB) and UK Breastfeeding and Parenting Support (UKBAPs) groups - wanted to know the answer to the question: What is in breast milk produced for children over 2 years old? We…
We were delighted and very grateful to welcome Dr Petra Boynton to Parenting Science Gang for an online Q&A on pregnancy loss in Baby Loss Awareness Week 2018. Petra took questions from mothers in advance and on the night. For…
PSG's Breastfeeding and Healthcare Experiences group are interested in the vital role that health professionals play in supporting mothers to breastfeed successfully. UK breastfeeding rates are poor. In their 2017 Position Statement on Breastfeeding, the Royal College of Paediatrics and…
How does Personal Experience of Breastfeeding Affect the Professional Practice of Health Care Professionals? The second study from the PSG group Breastfeeding and Health Care Experiences, investigated the effect of their own breastfeeding experiences on the support that healthcare professionals…
Image shared via Flicker, CC licence 2.0 credit: Harald Groven Breastfeeding and Health Care Experiences are a group of 440 mothers, all of whom breastfeed their children; approximately half of the group are health care professionals (HCPs) or breastfeeding peer…
Gaius J Augustus, describes himself as a "well-rounded" scientist and artist who loves to integrate fields. We were delighted he joined our citizen scientists this week to share some of his design secrets with us, along with some resources put together…
We received over 750 responses to our survey on breastfeeding and healthcare experiences in the UK and our citizen scientist analysts are looking at the data as we speak. Here's a chat we had with Dr Gavin Brookes a little…
Update! Recruitment for this study is now closed. If you are enrolled on the study and have any questions, please email the research team on bookspsg@gmail.com Read with your child for science! We are a group of parents and carers interested…
Update! This study is now closed. We had 757 responses - thank you everyone! We'll publicise the results in early 2019. If you would like to share your breastfeeding story, please consider taking part in Dr Ruth Stirton's online research…
If you wanted to find out what your child thought about jobs / roles and who they were for (woman/man) - how would you find out? This is the question our Let Toys Be Toys - PSG group have been…