I've just finished my training as a Peer Counsellor to provide mother-to-mother support to those wanting to bf.
Sadly I also have to be in a full-time job come January (sooner than I expected due to cash-flow) but I really want to help and came up with the idea of running a session at my local Children's Centre for pg women who want to bf on a Saturday, probably the first Sat of every month to start out.
Often pregnant women are still working right up until the end of their pregnancies and can't make a week-day session, and it would be great for me as I could still work during the week and volunteer on weekends.
I mentioned this to my friend and as she was already in the Children's Centre this morning she mentioned this to them.
They thought it was a great idea apparently, said I should go down and see the existing Peer Counsellor (who runs a postnatal session on a Tuesday p.m.) obviously...
... the one caveat would be, however, that I couldn't take my ds with me (currently seven months old) as he might be a distraction!
I am really upset by this; I actually think it would be great for pg Mums to see real live bfing in action for starters; a picture is worth a thousand words and at another antenatal breastfeeding workshop I attend it's actually a real help to use ds as a demonstration model!!
I'm going to go down this afternoon to speak to the current peer counsellor to see if she wants to get involved, but right now I feel a bit like "f*ck it, what's the point?"
There's no creche either and tbh I'll be working all week so won't want to spend even more time apart from ds...
I just wanted to sound off really but also get a bit of advice, what's the best way to persuade the Children's Centre that having ds with me would actually be an asset rather than a distraction?