Midwifery basics. Infant feeding: skills to support infant feeding

Infant feeding: is the twelfth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. It aims to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on women’s experience and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities. In this third article Joyce Marshall considers the skills needed by health professionals and others to support breastfeeding women.