Debriefing your own breastfeeding experiences (and birth experiences come to that) is a very important part of becoming a bf helper. Those of you that have tried and failed to bf, should work through why they think it didn't work. Quite often it is outside influences, impacting on confidence. Sometimes it is the drugs that were used in labour.

Biologically babies are built to breastfeed. It isn't always easy and it takes most women a good 6 weeks to get it going smoothly. Have a look at the baby milk action website for some information on how industry talks us into bottle feeding our babies!