Chicken bald back

[Egluntyne]

...Have a look here...

 

Good for him!!

 

 

All the more astonishing as he comes from Barnsley!

[Trish]

way to go, breastfeeding is so much easier if you have a partners support but who supports them, a male role model and source of info and support is a great thing

[Karen & co.]

Great hopefully he can support the dads, who can then help the mums to breast feed Shame he can't pass on his knowlege to women though

 

karen x

[The Dogmother]

That's brilliant news!

[Jules.]

Well done that man

[The Dogmother]

But does he have first hand experience of bleeding nipples?

[Snowy]

Good for him! What a great source of support to new Dads. Although I agree, as a woman I'd probably struggle with a man helping me - bad experience with a male obstetrician after having my first son

[Louise]

But does he have first hand experience of bleeding nipples?

 

If he is a runner - maybe

[The Dogmother]

I'd forgotten that!

[Jules.]

Louise!

Kamilosan is great for breastfeeders, vasoline is great for runners

[Louise]

I worked somewhere for a few weeks where we had to go commando in the uniforms and they were very heavy duty cotton that was soooooooo rough I had never had joggers nipple before boy is it painful

[The Dogmother]

So's jogger's toenail!

[Louise]

Eeeeeeeeeew

[Cate in NZ]

When I was a midwife I worked with 2 male midwives and they were both amazing .

Sometimes women in labour refused to have them to deliver their babies and they were very sensitive to that and wouldn't get involved without the woman's consent, yet the number of women that commented on how fantastically supportive they'd been always amazed me.

That said one of those guys was a student in my set when I trained although he was a lot older than the rest of us, must have been around 50 whilst the rest of us were in our 20s or early 30s,and we'd always speculated about him a bit . About 3 years after we'd qualified I attended a study day, and found myself drawn to this statuesque blonde on the same study day, you know when you get that feeling that you know someone but can't quite place them . Then it sank in, that statuesque, (apparently) female, blonde was my ex male colleague

Still a damn good midwife though

[Egluntyne]

you know when you get that feeling that you know someone but can't quite place them . Then it sank in, that statuesque, (apparently) female, blonde was my ex male colleague

Still a damn good midwife though

 

Him Indoors had a similar experience a few years back. He went to a meeting and was rather uncomfortable when a six foot woman with thick ankles and a very firm handshake greeted him by his first name, chatted about mutual friends and gave him the distinct impression that she knew him.

 

He trawled his memory banks about this woman but couldn't place her at all. It wasn't until another colleague took him aside and said " What about Gordon then......that has caused a bit of a stir!......I wonder why he chose the name Deirdre....they usually go for something like Jasmine.....and I'm not sure that he has he got the legs for stilletos.

 

[Jules.]

When I had Alexander in hospital I said in my birth plan that I did not want to have any student midwives present. When the time came & I was asked "did i mind" I had two student midwives (one male) and a physiotherapist watching- the physio had never seen a birth before. I presume she was studying me to see how I possibly might have injured myself! The lovely thing was she came to thank me the next day for letting her watch.

[The Dogmother]

I had students in my c section, the ward afterwards and with the visiting midwife once I was back home. I was only too happy to help with their trainging. But it's each to their own and I can see how some people might object.