Musical celebration of breastfeeding!

She will be joined by Jenny Samuel (mezzo soprano) and Adrian West (piano) for an evening celebrating all the benefits of breastfeeding.

“I wanted to mark breastfeeding week which is every August,” says Sarah. “For the last few years there have been mummy wars, like formula feeding versus breastfeeding, driven by marketing by the formula companies trying to say that breastfeeding mothers are trying to make non-breastfeeding mothers feel bad. ”But that’s absolutely not the case, says Sarah who is far more interested in talking about the benefits of breastfeeding: “It is brilliant! It has got great health benefits, but because of the controversy, I wanted to do something positive, to put it forward in a positive way. It’s really healthy for the child, but in the UK we have got one of the lowest breastfeeding rates certainly in Europe, possibly in the world. There are lots of reasons. I think there is a lack of understanding between the healthcare professionals. We have had years of formula milk and I think we have become a very bottle-centric culture. If you want to buy a card for a new baby, it will have a bottle on there. And I think there is just a lot of misinformation, and there is also this idea that babies should be on a really strict feeding and sleeping routine.