Researcher
Swansea University, United Kingdom
Lyndsey is an experienced paediatric nurse, children’s public health nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, researcher and responsive parenting advocate. She has worked in hospitals, the community and within clients’ homes for 20 years, serving within the UK NHS, in private practice and voluntarily.
Lyndsey is a researcher at Swansea University, exploring the needs and challenges of medically complex breastfed infants and children and is completing her PhD in 2023. In 2019 she set up the Breastfeeding the Brave project to raise awareness of the unique breastfeeding needs of chronically, critically, and terminally ill children in the paediatric setting.
Lyndsey is a respected international speaker and teacher, and author of Holistic Sleep Coaching (2018), Let’s talk about your new family’s sleep (2020), Still Awake (2021), Breastfeeding the Brave (2022), co-author of The Writing Book (2022), and Why Childhood Illness Matters (2023).
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Breastfeeding Infants and Children with Cancer
Monday, August 14, 2023
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