Anne Doolan
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Breast milk: Why Ireland needs a donor service
- Health & Family
- December 10, 2019
Irish maternity hospitals receive donor breast milk via a volunteer group known as Blood Bikes – motorcyclists who give their free time to deliver ess(...)

Touching scene: why skin-to-skin care is best for newborns . . . and parents
- Health & Family
- September 23, 2019, 06:01
Some 86 per cent of all healthy, term babies born in Irish hospitals now receive skin-to-skin care after delivery, according to latest figures from th(...)

Why does Ireland have the lowest breastfeeding rate in Europe?
- Parenting
- July 31, 2019, 07:01
Ahead of the Spice Girls concert earlier this summer lactation consultant Nicola O’Byrne was contacted by an Instagram follower who knew exactly what (...)