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How you can support normal breastfeeding, even if you don’t have medical training

This blog explores ways a postpartum professional can provide valuable support to a breastfeeding parent. Focusing on the breastfeeding observation component, this blog outlines who can observe and assess a breastfeeding session, what’s included in a non-clinicial breastfeeding assessment and how to use the results of the breastfeeding assessment to provide good support.

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Podcast Episode 100 - Trauma-sensitive care for survivors of abuse

Julia Jones chats with Dusk Liney, a trauma-sensitive birth and postpartum professional, on the importance of trauma-sensitive care and how to support survivors to create safer postpartum experiences. They reflect on Dusk’s own story of navigating motherhood as a survivor of abuse and the broader themes that people who have experienced trauma face within motherhood.

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From patchwork career to postpartum care professional

A blog by Antonia Anderson on how her existing skills and training carried over from previous jobs into postpartum care work, why it’s okay not to feel fulfilled by motherhood and how you can funnel your passion for helping mothers into a sustainable career. Reflect on how your unique life and work experience might help you excel at running a postpartum care business.

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Podcast Episode 99 - Supporting plus size pregnancy in a fatphobic world

Julia Jones chats with Stephanie O'Brien from Postpartum with Steph. They explore how postpartum care providers can better support plus-size women. They discuss why BMI shouldn’t be used as a sole indicator of health, what it’s like navigating the hospital system as a plus-size woman, and how Steph’s personal experience led her to become a postpartum doula.

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Top 10 careers that make amazing postpartum professionals

This blog explores the top 10 careers that make amazing postpartum professionals - including hairdresser and beauty therapists, teachers, childcare workers, retail and hospitality workers, life coaches, yoga and pilates instructors, midwifes, mothers and friends!

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