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<p>Lactation Consultant Aimee Tebay, who is currently weaning her daughter three year old daughter Ellen, admits breastfeeding can be difficult but says the rewards are overwhelming. Picture Chani Anderson</p>

parenting

Breastfeeding support from mums who know the difficulties — and the high points

Not every new mother will take to it ‘naturally’. Issues can include sore nipples, excess milk, and not knowing when baby is hungry

<p> Esther Groarke Powell, Clinical Midwife Manager in the Emergency Dept at the National Maternity Hospital Holles St. Photograph Moya Nolan</p>

health and wellbeing

Working Life: I go out at 6am... I tiptoe in around 10pm, when my boys are asleep

<p>Lauren McCarthy is now safe and well at home with her best pal and big sister, four-year-old Zara. Born nine weeks premature after an emergency C-section, Lauren spent six weeks in CUMH neonatal intensive care unit. </p>

munster

'This is my way of saying thank you for saving our baby's life'

news

Historic deal will ’Brexit proof’ midwives

general

What to expect from Call The Midwife

news

Parents ‘brought firstborn son home in a tiny white coffin’

Midwife’s backers wants HSE’s spend investigated

A support group for midwife Philomena Canning has written to the Public Accounts Committee requesting an investigation into the loss of public money in the process that saw Ms Canning suspended from work and subsequently reinstated.

Tue, 07 Apr, 2015

Midwife

Breastfeeding support from mums who know the difficulties — and the high points

Working Life: I go out at 6am... I tiptoe in around 10pm, when my boys are asleep

'This is my way of saying thank you for saving our baby's life'

Historic deal will ’Brexit proof’ midwives

What to expect from Call The Midwife

Parents ‘brought firstborn son home in a tiny white coffin’

Midwife’s backers wants HSE’s spend investigated

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Mick Clifford

Midwife

Breastfeeding support from mums who know the difficulties — and the high points

Working Life: I go out at 6am... I tiptoe in around 10pm, when my boys are asleep

'This is my way of saying thank you for saving our baby's life'

Historic deal will ’Brexit proof’ midwives

What to expect from Call The Midwife

Parents ‘brought firstborn son home in a tiny white coffin’

Midwife’s backers wants HSE’s spend investigated

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Mick Clifford

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