LCGB is affiliated to the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), the global association for health care workers who specialise in breastfeeding.
ILCA is a founding and participating member of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding (WABA), and has NGO status with WHO and United Nations organizations such as UNICEF. For information on ILCA, visit: www.ilca.org
As far as LCGB is aware, these breastfeeding educational events are free from commercial sponsorship by companies associated with the baby feeding industry as stipulated in the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. www.who.int/child_adolescent_health/documents/9421594292/en
To include a breastfeeding conference, seminar or other educational events on this page, email Lynn Timms: timmslynn@yahoo.co.uk
Find your nearest Lactation Consultant and also private LC here. Page also includes Lactation Consultants who divide tongue-ties as part of the NHS and also as part of their private LC practice.
Disclaimer:
It is advisable to ensure that the International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) that you are consulting has up-to-date certification and appropriate professional indemnity insurance, and is also a suitably trained health care professional if performing tongue-tie division. LCGB is the professional support organisation for IBCLCs in Great Britain but takes no responsibility for individual professional practice. IBCLCs are required to re-certify every 5 years with the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) who sets the standards for practice and code of conduct and ethics for IBCLCs. www.iblce-europe.org
Publications and resources on this page are available from LCGB, or through external links. Please take your time to see all the resources we have to offer.
LCGB is a voice for the Infant Feeding community to share what is happening in our locality regarding the Protection, Promotion and Support of breastfeeding. This can give us a picture of what is happening across the country; particularly pertinent in view of the changes that many trusts and Local Authorites are experiencing at present.
At the last LCGB ameeting in September it was decided to send all members a simple questionnaire so we gather information and views from as many of you as possible.
I would be very grateful if you could look at the attached questionnaire and return it to me.
Many thanks for you help and co-operation. I hope to be able to write a report on the responses early in the New Year.
Sally Etheridge
Poem by Alison Blenkinsop.
Lactation Consultants have all passed a test,
to help mothers nourish their babes at the breast.
So read all about us, and then you’ll be free
to contact or join us at LCGB.
'By Alison Blenkinsop'
LCGB Knitted Breast The Pattern
We have recently received a number of enquires about this resource. Please visit http://lcgb.org/shop.html to download your free knitting pattern.
We now have a Portugese translation of this pattern available to download, is anyone able to provide other translations?
Six months of exclusive breastfeeding: how good is the evidence? BMJ 2011
