Better Breastfeeding

16/02/2026

Lactation consultations and breastfeeding preparation sessions available in yout own home by an experienced IBCLC Lactation consultant. Contact me on 085 850 9709. Full receipt supplied for health insurance company.
Appointments available.

05/02/2026

On my way to a home visit today I had a pretty scary walk across the Thomas Clark bridge....kinda regretting my recent weight loss in that gale!! But it had been a stormy choppy waters kind of breastfeeding experience for the mama too ,so worth the trip.

04/02/2026

01/02/2026

Happy Brigid’s Day! The figure of Brigid stands both fierce and compassionate in our mythology. She is the only female patron saint of Ireland. She is goddess of healing, fire, and inspiration; taking blacksmiths, livestock, poets, women and newborns under her protection.

Brigid stands for women’s strength, softness, and wisdom. For midwives, mothers, healers, and those who protect the bond between women and their babies.

This Brigid’s Day, La Leche League of Ireland are proud to celebrate the symbolism of Brigid by supporting breastfeeding, and by honouring the deep, embodied wisdom of motherhood.

May we keep the flame alight for women and babies, today and always 🕯️

21/01/2026

Book in for this amazing family friendly conference! This year it's in Blanchardstown!

We’re delighted to introduce Dr. Nils Bergman, keynote speaker at our upcoming 60th Year Gala Conference.

Dr. Bergman (MB ChB, MD, MPH) is a consulting Public Health Physician with internationally recognised expertise in maternal and neonatal health care, and a pioneer of skin-to-skin care and Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for premature and very low birthweight babies.

Having worked across low, middle, and high-income settings, Dr. Bergman brings both global expertise and research which has transformed how we understand newborn care. His work as principal investigator with the WHO Immediate KMC Study showed lifesaving reductions in mortality through immediate, continuous skin-to-skin contact. Drawing from his extensive clinical and research experience, Dr. Bergman has developed the scientific framework known as “nurturescience”, explaining why zero separation between mother and baby is so powerfully protective.

We can’t wait to welcome Dr. Bergman to Ireland for this special 60th Anniversary Annual Conference.

🗣️ Conference Sessions:
🗓 Saturday 7th March - Skin to Skin Contact: A Lifelong Gift for Your Baby
🗓 Sunday 8th March - Nurturescience and the Case for Zero Separation: The Way Forward

📍 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15

Can’t make it in person? No problem! Our keynote talks will be livestreamed, so you don’t have to miss out on this incredible opportunity.

🎟️ Secure your early bird tickets today. Early bird pricing ends on 31st January! https://www.lalecheleagueireland.com/conference-2026

15/12/2025

December 2003, and a visit to Newbridge shop with my 4 children including my 3 week old baby. I picked this little silver Christmas tree ornament ,a little silver Christmas present box. The girl.asked me if it was a gift...and the hormones and overwhelming love for my new and last baby took over. I cried and said, " yes , a gift for my baby from me ...with so much love" the sales girl looked at me ,looked at my sleeping baby in the sling as if I was mad. Christmas is a time of high emotion . It's also a time of stress and this need for that perfect image . Go easy on yourself, make memories, take photos, sleep! and enjoy your little ones. Breastfeeding can calm mom and baby. Cuddles are wonderful too. Wishing you all a peaceful happy Christmas with a little sprinkling of magic.

23/10/2025

Only recently I supported a client who wanted to wean off exclusively pumping in week 2. I was shocked that she was told by a midwife to avoid holding and cuddling her baby while stopping lactation! This mom had been very unwell and was missing her baby. I reassured her she could thoroughly enjoy those magical cuddles and have skin to skin when baby was after a bottle feed. Skin to skin is for all babies. We have a long way to go. Mother's body is STILL not recognised as a great incubator!

18/10/2025

Absolutely fabulous day with my Toastmaster gang at TedXTralee Women event. Fangirled over Laura Dowling@thefabulouspharmacist and

01/10/2025

Happy National Breastfeeding Week! A warm welcome is certain at any LLL meetings, any week, but there may be more cakes at meetings this week. Have a chat,borrow a book ,ask those questions you have about gentle parenting..

Happy National Breastfeeding Week 2025!

Whether you nursed your baby for a day, a week, a year or beyond, whether you feed your baby at the breast, with expressed milk or combination feed - this week is for you.

This year's theme is very close to our hearts - "Hold me close: the power of skin-to-skin".

La Leche League has a long history of acknowledging the incredible benefits of skin-to-skin contact for both parent and baby and our La Leche League Leaders often highlight it as a powerful tool to assist breastfeeding and bonding.

Keep an eye on our social media channels this week to learn more about skin-to-skin care and how it can support your breastfeeding experience.

15/08/2025

I've been busy as a bee lately seeing babies and their parents in Fairview, Clonsilla, Artane and Clonee. I have some appointments available next week for 1:1 breastfeeding consultations.

26/07/2025

A lovely piece about our superpower... breast milk!

Your milk contains phagocytes, white blood cells that pass through your baby’s gut wall and patrol around your baby’s bloodstream.

There, they detect, engulf and destroy harmful micro-organisms; bacteria, viruses, fungi, and foreign materials that aren’t supposed to be there, like dust particles or pigments, and also cancer cells, though these cells can sometimes adapt and evade detection.

Phagocytes also remove dead or dying cells that can cause inflammation and disease.

Once phagocytes have destroyed the harmful micro-organism, they retain harmless fragments of this pathogen on their surface, allowing another type of protective cell - the T cells - in your baby’s immune system to learn from them.

T cells learn to recognise the pathogens, developing your baby’s long term immunity.

It’s like a whole military operation going on, whilst you sit and feed your children like nothing appears to be happening at all.

We are all born with immature immune systems. Your milk not only helps your baby’s immune system to develop in a healthy way, it also helps to protect your baby from illness while this happens.

Our immune systems take around 6 years to fully develop, which is thought to be one of the reasons that natural term breastfeeding (allowing a child to stop breastfeeding in their own time without interrupting or replacing breastmilk) extends from anywhere between around 2 and 7 years old.

Some extra geekiness: The word phagocyte comes from the Greek ‘phagein’, ‘to eat’ or ‘devour’, and ‘-cyte’, a word-forming element used in modern science to mean "of a cell," from the Greek word kytos, meaning ‘a hollow’, ‘receptacle’, ‘basket’.

So Mama, are you remarkable, or are you really, really remarkable?

10/06/2025

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