Within my 33 year career in maternity services as a Registered Midwife in the NHS, and particularly for the last 10 years as an Infant Feeding Specialist / Lactation Consultant, I’ve had extensive experience with all challenges related to breastfeeding. Through antenatal education and postnatal guidance and support, I have been privileged to help and support new parents wanting to establish breastfeeding. I have also supported safe and responsive bottle feeding to parents who have chosen to formula feed their baby or chosen a combination of both bottle and breast.

I provide training to healthcare professionals, including midwives, maternity support staff, GP trainees, to help parents to access the right advice, make informed choices around feeding their baby and expand the support they can access if things feel challenging.

I am a mother to three, now grown-up children and was delighted to welcome my first granddaughter in 2017 and my first grandson in 2019. It was the most amazing feeling to be able to support my daughter to establish breastfeeding and it highlighted how strongly I feel that every parent should have access to the right support at the right time whenever they need it. I hope to ensure you can breastfeed your baby for as long as you and your baby want.

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I am a qualified practicing counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Registered Midwife specialising in Perinatal Mental Health. I have an extensive 23-year experience working within the maternity services, with the last 14 years spent in the NHS. The last 4 years of my midwifery career I have dedicated to maternal mental health, which holds a special place in my heart.

Within my counselling role, I have experience working with anxiety and worry, depression, change, loss (including baby loss), grief, bereavement, trauma, chronic illness, low self-esteem, low confidence, relationship difficulties, anger and burnout.
I have been trained and work in an integrative way, which means I am able to tailor the way we work together to your individual needs using tools and techniques from different therapeutic approaches. You, your needs and wellbeing will always be at the centre of our therapeutic work.
Whether you choose to work with me or not, I wish you all the best on your journey!

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I qualified to teach infant massage in 2015 when I worked as a health promotion worker at a local children’s centre. During lockdown and at a time I had taken a break from working to bring up my boys, I listened to podcasts and read some literature relating to early brain development which made me realise how much I loved and missed teaching baby massage. I felt sad thinking about new parents/caregivers and babies missing out on nurturing touch and human connection during the early stages of parenthood – a time when parents need support the most. I decided I wanted to create a special safe space for parents to learn infant massage. In 2022 Hannah Bromwell Baby Massage was born and I have been delivering courses to small groups and on a one-to-one basis since. I will be facilitating couples groups and dads groups over the next few months as I understand sometimes that one-to-one time with each parent helps improve confidence and connection.