Workshops & EventsBreastfeeding Workshop
15 Edge Street,
London W8
Book at The Life Centre Reception
or call 020 7221 4602
This workshop will be interactive and will enable women to explore personal and family attitudes to breastfeeding. All information is up to date and research-based. Whilst a detailed agenda has been established for the workshop, women will be able to add their own issues for discussion. It is envisaged that some of the women attending the class will have attended Lynda’s antenatal classes.
Breastfeeding is partly instinctive and partly learned. Some women have more
breastfeeding problems than others. The workshop should assist women to avoid/ease difficulties encountered in the early days and can also help women who had breastfeeding problems with their first baby.
Topics covered in the workshop will include:
- Health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and babies
- How breast milk is produced; colostrum, foremilk and hindmilk
- Skin-to-skin contact and its role in bonding
- The importance and timing of the first feed
- Correct positioning and attachment, illustrated by appropriate DVDs
- Signs that your baby is getting enough milk, via weight gain and nappy contents
- Frequency and length of feeds, especially in the early days; significance of feeding on demand and night feeds
- Importance of “rooming-in” together
- How to deal with problems; breast engorgement, thrush, mastitis, low milk supply,
oversupply of milk, colic, conflicting advice, mother’s diet, medication and growth spurts - When and where to be measured for feeding bras
- Expressing breast milk; hand expressing and electrical breast pumps
- How to combine returning to work with breastfeeding
- Use of dummies (pacifiers)
- Where to get help if you need it, including recommended books
Lynda has been a practising Midwife for many years and, since 2003, has run private
antenatal classes in central London for couples. She also presents weaning & teething classes.
Lynda is experienced in literally all aspects of midwifery and is qualified to teach
aquanatal classes and baby massage. Lynda is also trained in Indian head massage and shiatsu for pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period. In addition to her expertise in
antenatal teaching, Lynda has a particular interest and expertise in breastfeeding
counselling and management. She is a certified Lactation Consultant.
Lynda works on a part-time basis at a private hospital in London. Lynda spent a year, as a practising Midwife, working as a full-time Baby & Childcare Advisor for Boots The Chemists. This gave her an opportunity to learn more about contemporary antenatal and postnatal needs. Lynda has two grown-up sons.
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