Health professionals need support to breastfeed, like anyone else. The GP Infant Feeding Network lists resources for medical parents.

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There is a Facebook group offering peer to peer support for breastfeeding doctors.

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If you have had a difficult breastfeeding experience as a health professional it's important to come to terms with this in order to offer the families you work with unbiased advice - health professionals may have worse breastfeeding outcomes than expected, perhaps due to intensity of work demands, and this is correlated with strength of breastfeeding advocacy.