Breastfeeding peer support: lessons for design

Heather Trickey, from DECIPHer at Cardiff University, highlights findings that may give new breastfeeding peer support interventions the best chance of working. From our study, we have drawn lessons to give new breastfeeding peer support interventions the best chance of working. We hope these will be useful to anyone involved in developing and providing peer support, including volunteer breastfeeding counsellors and peer supporters, midwives and other health professionals, service providers and commissioners. A full account of the review findings is in Trickey H, Thomson G, Grant A, et al. A realist review of one-to-one breastfeeding peer support experiments conducted in developed country settings. Matern Child Nutr 2017