BBC News, Gloucestershire<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Two mums who struggled to breastfed their babies have said they would have struggled without the help of a peer support group.<\/p>\n Manpreet Pinder, who has since trained as a volunteer breastfeeding peer supporter, and her sister, Sukhneet, said without the group they would not have learned how to breastfeed.<\/p>\n Ms Pinder, who had her son in 2020, said she found it difficult to breastfeed at first. “Though I loved him from the moment he came into this world, it was really tough,” she said.<\/p>\n Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Support Network has drop-ins, with a qualified breastfeeding counsellor and peer supporters, in Dursley, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Churchdown, Cirencester and Stroud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ms Pinder said of her breastfeeding experience: “It was so painful, I couldn’t get him on. I don’t have words to describe the pain, it was so bad.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “Before I had a baby, I thought: you need clothes, you need nappies. But I never thought about how you feed your baby,” she added.<\/p>\n “The most difficult part of breastfeeding is at night. Naturally, babies will feed quite a lot at night. <\/p>\n “That behaviour of a baby, the fussiness and wanting to latch on all the time, that’s a recipe for a horrible time.”<\/p>\n Ms Pinder’s sister Sukhneet said that until she had her own child, she did not realise the extent of what her sister had gone through.<\/p>\n “It felt like my son was never full, it felt like he was always hungry. I didn’t realise there was a skill to breastfeeding,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Manpreet](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/13e6\/live\/3ba2bab0-73c4-11f0-bd11-a31f20690a3b.jpg.webp\")
Manpreet Pinder<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNHS Breastfeeding Guidance<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n