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With over 25 years experience supporting breastfeeding mothers in both acute and community settings, Dr. Suzanne Colson is an honorary member and founding mother/leader of La Leche League France. She has worked as a breastfeeding consultant with Michel Odent at Pithiviers State Hospital (France), a caseload midwife to French-speaking asylum seekers and a midwife/baby feeding advisor in North London hospitals where, in 1998, she was seconded to work on the Williams, Hawdon and DeRooy team examining the effects of supplementation on metabolic adaptation and breastfeeding. Suzanne teaches on the Interprofessional Learning Programme (IPL) at Canterbury Christ Church University where she is integrating her PhD research results into midwifery education.
Suzanne's PhD thesis examining the mechanisms of biological nurturing, a newly developed approach to breastfeeding, won the Royal College of Nursing inaugural Akinsanya Award for excellence and originality in doctoral work. The work was commended for its clinical applications. A new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) module, aiming to mainstream the biological nurturing perspective and to appraise the evidence base for current breastfeeding support, is open to anyone who supports breastfeeding mothers. More information about this CPD module can be found on the university web site and the training page at http://www.biologicalnurturing.com|