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Lizzie

@grumpylizzie.bsky.social
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Breastfeeding peer supporter. Interested in perinatal mental health. All views my own. Cambridge, UK

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Melissa @melissadando.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Breastfeeding plays an important role in cancer prevention and much more, so it is encouraging to see it getting attention in Parliament. This is a testament to the amazing work of @1stepsnutrition.bsky.social & @katiepk.bsky.social who advocate tirelessly for better nutrition in the early years.
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World Cancer Research Fund @wcrf.org · 02/07/2025
Great to see infant feeding being raised as a matter of policy priority for the UK Parliament by @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social, who made it clear that the promise by Secretary of State for Health to create the “healthiest generation ever” cannot be met unless infant feeding is prioritised.
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Lizzie @grumpylizzie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Can't recommend Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams enough. Excellently written, and while the subject is largely quite existentially depressing, there are moments where I have literally laughed out loud, including this gem... #carelesspeople
The meeting rooms in Facebook's offices all have cutesy names (Guns'n'Rosegarden in DC, I'll be Bak Choy in Singapore), and our goal of convincing human rights groups of Facebook's good intentions is perhaps not helped by the fact that the name of the meeting room, Wicked Witch of the West, is displayed, without explanation, under Chris's talking head for the entire meeting. (I point this out to him afterwards, and within days the name of the meeting room has been changed).
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/02/2025
this is actually how it feels tbh
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Perinatal Mental Health Social Research @perinatalresearch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
his is a great paper exploring perinatal peer support. Community based perinatal oeer support: a realist review bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/02/2025
Better mental health care around pregnancy exists – I’ve seen it. Why aren’t all women getting it? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Better mental health care around pregnancy exists – I’ve seen it. Why aren’t all women getting it? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
The tragic loss of a new mother highlights how widespread perinatal mental illness is – and that care is patchy and underfunded, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Lizzie @grumpylizzie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Labour MP to push for better maternal mental health care after friend’s suicide www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Labour MP to push for better maternal mental health care after friend’s suicide
Laura Kyrke-Smith says perinatal mental health care in England is ‘postcode lottery’, with disadvantaged women more likely to miss out
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/01/2025
I’m a mum who feels like the most boring fool on Earth. How do I find ‘interesting me’ again? | Leading questions
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I’m a mum who feels like the most boring fool on Earth. How do I find ‘interesting me’ again? | Leading questions
You’re allowed to want to feel like yourself again, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Sometimes things have to change outside us for things to change inside * Read more Leading questions I’m 36 and a mother to two beautiful hyperactive…
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Lizzie @grumpylizzie.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Excellent episode of @beyondbabyblues.bsky.social looking at infant feeding and perinatal mental health. open.spotify.com/episode/4YI2...
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Infant feeding
Beyond Baby Blues · Episode
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Lizzie @grumpylizzie.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is a lovely article. Captures the bewilderment of early postpartum. With so many opinions on parenting/feeding/sleeping/everything so readily available, often unsolicited, reassurance that you're doing ok is so powerful.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This has had me giggling all afternoon. It was posted by @lisagillmore.bsky.social on X, but unfortunately she is not very active here, and I just have to share it. "Planning Christmas dinner like"
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Lizzie @grumpylizzie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
When you start the day watching Paddington with your kid and finish it watch Black Doves with your partner, you find yourself seriously questioning whether the Browns are actually safe.
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Lizzie @grumpylizzie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
@thenewsagents.com What if ... the 2011 referendum on switching to AV had passed? Would love to hear your perspectives on this... Would we still have had Tories in gov for 12 years? Would Brexit even have been possible?
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