WHO ARE WE?
Lyn Scazafabo, RGN, IBCLC
Lyn is a registered nurse and mother of five as well as a Lactation Consultant and has practiced in the field of Women and Children’s Health for over 30 years. Her experience includes both hospital and community settings in the UK and America where she set up the Breastfeeding Resource Centre at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, NJ, Camden and was on the executive board of Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, Camden County,NJ. She was one of the original Nurse Home Visitors with the Elmira Project (being piloted in the UK as the Family Nurse Partnership). She currently writes a column on breastfeeding for NHS Health News Eastern and Coastal Kent.
Philippa Parrett, BSc(hons),NCT counsellor
Phil qualified as a Lactation Consultant in 2002 and intends to resit the exam this year. She is a mother of four and NCT breastfeeding counsellor. Before working in the world of breastfeeding Phil studied Structural Engineering at Bath University. She became a Chartered Structural Engineer and worked in Project Management in the construction industry in London and the South East.As a breastfeeding counsellor she was part of the DOH-funded CATCH Biological Nurturing project within East Kent Hospitals Trust. She is an accredited peer support trainer with the NCT and has provided peer support training for Sure Starts in East Sussex and Eastern and Coastal Kent. She has worked within the acute services at East Kent Hospitals, providing both clinical and training services. In 2006 East Kent Hospitals awarded her the second place individual achievement award for her work with breastfeeding.
She has been involved with the Breastfeeding Task Force and Maternity Services Liaison committee in East Kent for a number of years.
Dr Suzanne Colson ...
We work in partnership with Dr Suzanne Colson of the Biological Nurturing project. For more about her exciting and award winning work see www.biologicalnurturing.com.
