What are the benefits of peer support?

• Accessible, informal service for mothers
• Effective in partnership with health professionals
• Supports women to sustain breastfeeding, especially women on low incomes
• Helps to normalise breastfeeding
• Widely recognised as able to increase breastfeeding rates and improve the experience
• Builds women’s confidence through training, enabling them to support other mothers and build a local network

The Breastfeeding Peer Support Training is accredited by the National Open College Network.


“The NCT peer support training not only provided me with extra information which helped me to establish breastfeeding much more successfully with my second child, it also provided me with the confidence and knowledge to be able to support new mums.”

Helena Wright, breastfeeding peer supporter