Break times always good for raising oxytocin levels and catching up with colleagues old and new! #MAINN2023
I am delighted to be in the beautiful Lake District attending the MAINN conference. What a wonderful first day full of amazing thought provoking presentations #MAINN2023 Prof Amy Brown 🕷🤱🐘 Mary Renfrew
Fantastic talk today on complementary feeding practices and the associations with breastfeeding and formula feeding mothers from Ada Garcia. A really complex and multifactorial picture to paint with many variables #MAINN2023
What a wonderful jam-packed 3 days in the beautiful Grange Over Sands for the Maternal and Infant Nutrition&Nuture Conference #MAINN2023 . I feel so privileged to have been able to attend and I have learnt so much from the most inspiring committed and lovely people -Baby Friendly UK
At a workshop with @PractisingPlace on artistic representations of mothers’ bodies. ‘Carried’ by Krissi Musiol -an audio walk (with a watermelon!) aiming to make motherhood visible and maternal experiences heard. An emotive experience shared with my own melon!
#MAINN2023 The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan
Very grateful to have had the best first conference experience at #MAINN2023 Met the most wonderful and inspiring people, who made us newbies feel so welcomed! ☺️
Nathan Nickel, PhD 🏳️🌈 presenting barriers to BFI roll-out Breastfeeding Committee for Canada Board contact, unsurprising to see Doctor engagement as a main barrier. As highlighted by Mary Renfrew, the need for a transdisciplinary approach to infant feeding is very apparent #MAINN2023
I am pro supporting parents to meet their feeding goals and creating environments that allows parents to choose without barriers and commercial influence. I think this image of the book table at the #MAINN2023 conference reflects this
#MilkMatters
Understanding motivations, barriers and enablers to skin to skin contact and baby wearing in mother infant dyads 🤱🏾
Dr Róisín Bailey #MAINN2023
An amazing talk from Dr Sally Dowling and Emma Douglass about the information needs of women with learning disabilities. Is the information we provide actually accessible for the population #MAINN2023
Right after my own heart - Mary Renfrew siting #breastfeeding in an #EvolutionaryBiology context. What have we done? #Culture #CommercialPressure #PowerAndGender #Medicalisation and control #Industrialisation and #MediaForces #MAINN2023
Day TWO of #MAINN2023 begins! Delegates from 18 countries ready to hear from groundbreaking research on Maternal And Infant Nurture and Nutrition 🤱🏽 in Grange over Sands UK.
Significant others are vital to a NICU parents journey but they need support and guidance too Renée Flacking #MAINN2023 SLTs in Neonatal Care CEN
Off to a great start! Mary Renfrew keynote at #MAINN2023 overlooking the sea in the glorious Lake District #InPersonAgain #Breastfeeding #Lactation #Research
