Llaeth Mam - issue 11

In this issue, we talk about how Cardiff Bay has become Wales’ first breastfeeding friendly zone.

Also included is a profile of Swansea's local heroine Maria Dowden. She has been a national childbirth trust (NCT) breastfeeding counsellor for 25 years and a NCT tutor for more than 10 years.

Other features include:

• information on the national programme to support breastfeeding in Wales for 2009-10 including a new training course for peer supporters;
• an update on breast is best supporters (BIBS) group in Llandrindod Wells;
• a sad farewell to Sue Kirkby, who had been head of community midwifery in the Conwy & Denbighshire NHS Trust (now Betsi Cadwaladr university local health board);
• your local news from around Wales.