World Breastfeeding Week Begins

On Tuesday's Morning Focus, Pat Flynn was joined by Petrina O'Halloran, founder of Mama's Boobie Box, mum blogger and writer for online magazine Boobingit.com and Clare Community Lactation Consultant, Gobnait Murphy. World Breast feeding week has begun and this year's theme is enabling breastfeeding to make a difference for working parents. Gobnait discussed the health benefits of breastfeeding and highlighted the HSE support services that are available. Petrina told us how the new legislation around breastfeeding breaks being extended in the workplace will help women breast feed longer and explained that culturally we need to change our attitude in order to support breastfeeding women.