Yesterday was our last group training session. Awww. Today we focused on breastfeeding and we told our breastfeeding (or not) stories. What an amazing array of stories. Ten different tales. Mine was ho hum – able to breastfeed both boys for a year and no particular problems but others didn’t have the same luck. What struck me, though didn’t really surprise me, was the guilt factor when some couldn’t breastfeed or kept persisting because of the guilt. Guilt is such a wasted emotion yet we mothers suffer greatly from it – needlessly most of the time. Such pressure we put on ourselves.
We also briefly touched on our use of medication whilst pregnant and breastfeeding and received some wonderful handouts provided by Rodney White who is the Pharmacist at the Drug Information Line at Monash Medical Centre here in Melbourne. If you’d like more information on the use of medication whilst pregnant or breastfeeding, please call Rodney on 03 9594 2361.
Unfortunately the 3 hours flew and it was time to celebrate the end of our group training with some food and chat. I’m really going to miss these Tuesday sessions but we need to move on to the second stage of our training which is one on one training with the senior telephone support workers for 10 weeks.
Meanwhile, we’ve exchanged email addresses and hope to catch up as a group in the next month or so.
Other than that, I’m continuing on with my Diploma of Professional Counselling. I think it will be a slow process due to work, family, etc but the reading so far has been really interesting. Slowly but surely!
