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Jan 2021
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The minefield of Breastfeeding with Midw...

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About this episode

Mother Tongue are joined by Dubai's leading Lactation specialist, Dru Campbell. Dru is a trained nurse, midwife and lactation consultant and is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the UK and the Dubai Health Authority (DHA). 

Dru shares her wealth of knowledge on breastfeeding, from how to know if your baby’s getting enough milk, the support her clinic offers to families and the benefits of breastfeeding for both mum and baby.

The Mother Tongue mama's share snippets from their breastfeeding journeys, the highs and the lows and what they wish they had known at the time.

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