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Having qualified as a General Nurse (Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham) and as a Midwife I subsequently qualified as a Health Visitor. In order to widen my skill-set further in 2013 I successfully undertook a Breastfeeding Specialist Course and qualified as an IBCLC.

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With the NHS I continue to work as a Health Visitor, assisting mothers with practical breastfeeding support and devising plans of care to resolve breastfeeding issues. As a Specialist Infant Feeding Lead, I have delivered training to other practitioners around breastfeeding skills, tongue tie management and faltering growth, in addition to devising pathways around challenges such as mastitis. I have also practiced as a Tongue Tie Practitioner after studying for a post-graduate qualification in Advanced Clinical Skills in tongue-tie management in 2014. As a Tongue Tie Practitioner, I have completed more than 500 frenulotomy procedures and I am competent in assessing, dividing and providing post division breastfeeding support and wound management.

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Privately I have experience  of working independently abroad delivering antenatal, breastfeeding and weaning classes to the expat community with the Independent Midwives Hebammenzentrum (Vienna, Austria), before setting up Breastfeeding Midlands in 2019.

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I am passionate about the importance of good, on-going support that covers not only the early days following birth but also the subsequent weeks and months as this enables us to address any challenges that occur and gives mothers the knowledge and skills to achieve their breastfeeding goals.

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