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Makes Milk with Emma Pickett: breastfeeding from the beginning to the end

Makes Milk with Emma Pickett: breastfeeding from the beginning to the end

Hannah's story - breastfeeding as a comfort through grief, gentle weaning

Oct 12, 2026 · 45m

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I’m delighted to be joined by a fellow ABMer today - Hannah Shaw from Morecambe. She’s a peer supporter and newly qualified probationary breastfeeding counsellor. We talk about ABM training and about Hannah’s two breastfeeding journeys. Hannah describes early struggles feeding her first child, Holly, including sore bleeding nipples, positioning issues and six months of rugby hold, then breastfeeding into toddlerhood despite family comments, bedsharing after a near-miss falling asleep wh...