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…
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…
Earlier this month, PSG headed off to the Institute of Health Visiting (IHV) Conference in Manchester to share the results of some of our research. Our Director, Sophia Collins, gave a presentation about co-producing research with parents, while four of our…
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…
Professor Helen Ball, infant sleep expert, was with us for the first ever PSG Q&A and so we were really excited to have her back with us again. Image courtesy of Rob Mank via the Baby Sleep Info Source Helen: Hi…
Our Breastfeeding & Healthcare Experiences (BF HCE) PSG has been running 2 complementary studies: looking at how personal breastfeeding experiences affect professional practice in health care professionals, in collaboration with Dr Yan-Shing Chang (King's College London), and looking at the…
Babies. Exciting. Inspiring. Privilege. Happy. Boobs. Empowering. Just some of the words used to describe taking part in Breastfeeding Older Babies and Beyond (BOBAB) and UK Breastfeeding and Parenting Support (UKBAPS) PSGs #breastmilkexperiment. These 2 Gangs wanted to know what’s…
We asked our members whether there is enough research into parenting / parenthood, and where they would like to see more research. In general, PSGers felt that parenting is underrepresented in research and what research there is is often poorly…
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…