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Emma Pickett
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Author, Podcaster (Makes Milk with Emma Pickett), Lactation consultant.
Most recent book is “Supporting the Transition from Breastfeeding: A Guide to Weaning for Professionals, Supporters and Parents”.
Films, dogs, London.
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Really excited about my brand new picture book for 2-6 year olds about the endings of breastfeeding journeys. It includes a tandem feeding story, parent-led weaning and self-weaning. On sale now. From Amazon or through a book shop (via Ingram Spark).
The front cover of a new picture book. A little blond person looks out at us. The title says, The Story of Jessie’s Milkies by Emma Pickett, illustrated by JoJo Ford.
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Ben has been missing in Oxford since the weekend. Please help by sharing the link. Those who love him are desperate for help.

www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...
Ben is 20. He has shaggy brown curly hair and a big smile and currently a bit of a beard. He is white.
January 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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A viscacha from South America doing the lactation thing. All breastfeeding mums will recognise those half-closed milk drunk eyes.
A scruffy looking rodent, a bit like a rabbit, is standing up and looking around. Meanwhile its baby nuzzles into its upright body to nurse. The baby has half-closed eyes. The ground around is rocky and snowy.
January 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Home-made carved geese as counters for our new board game.
Tiny wooden geese approx 2cm high. Sitting on a wooden table.
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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A home-made board game for bird nerds. We are bar-headed geese on migration.
#birds #birdnerd #birdsofbluesky
An image of a table covered in game play from ‘Goose Chase’ - a home made board game. The boards is a map showing a journey through the Himalayas. There are play cards entitled things like ‘High-affinity haemoglobin’, circadian rhythms and V-formation.
December 14, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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This adorable minx just cost approximately £400 in urine tests and blood tests and hormone tests.
Turns out it was psychogenic overdrinking most likely caused by anxiety or feeling randy. Symptoms have passed and tests showed nothing scary. #DogsofBlueSky #PeskyDogsofBlueSky
A brown dog relaxes on a grey fluffy dog bed without a care in the world.
December 10, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Christmas boobles #ibclc #breastfeeding
A plastic Christmas bauble hangs from a tree. There is tinsel and sparkle in the background. The bauble is in the shape of a human breast and is dark brown. A pink skin toned coloured Christmas bauble in the shape of a human breast hangs from a Christmas tree. A knitted human breast with a large nipple hangs from a Christmas tree. It is a bauble but spelt booble - with a boob.
December 8, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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That was a swing seat (now have to find the seat bit).
That was a balcony.
Storm in north London.
A swing seat on its side in a wet garden. Bits of white wood on a wet deck. These are pieces of a wooden balcony.
December 8, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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You can write 4 books and countless articles, but you don’t really get much choice about which words will get seen by the most people! Could be worse. This one at least demonstrates my epic piggy back skills.
Screen shot from an Instagram post from the upworthy account. It’s a re-post of something I wrote on Twitter several years back. It reads: Today, when I was walking with my 18 yr old son we talked about the concept that, 'one day I carried him for the last time'. . That idea you put a young child down & never pick them up again. We decided that was unacceptable so I gave him a piggy back for 20 yds.
December 7, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Tomorrow’s podcast episode celebrates a connection between 2 sisters & their journey in supporting each other to breastfeed. Also describes an ingenious technique to diagnose tongue tie! Feed your sister’s baby and feel the difference! Look for ‘Makes milk with Emma Pickett’. #breastfeeding #ibclc
Two sisters are lying on a blanket on grass. One is breastfeeding twins. One is breastfeed her singleton son. The text reads, ‘Oh, why don’t we give it a try?’
December 2, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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In 11 minutes, we go from A to B. Buying a dog toy is essentially buying a breadstick.
It happens with even the tough ones.
I feel I should be able to hire him out to dog toy companies. How does one get that gig? #DogsofBlueSky
A dog toy is being presented to Stanley. It is a green and blue bird. We see Stanley ready to receive it. The clock reads 16.07 It is now 16.18 Stanley is surrounded by white fluff and an empty carcass of a dog toy.
November 28, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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Happy Birthday to the 17 year old who wants @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Harriet Harman (and friends) on her carrot cake.
A square birthday cake with white icing. There is a 17 candle sitting next to an image of Harriet Harman and her electoral dysfunction podcast colleagues. Below that is the rest is politics podcast logo with Alastair and Rory.
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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My conference companion as I watch the UNICEF Baby Friendly UK conference for 2024. Topics this morning include: formula pricing, inclusive care, early childhood development and supporting women with learning disabilities to make infant feeding decisions. #bfconf
Stanley the brown dog with the ombré ears is watching the laptop with me. The laptop shows the Q&A session for the UNICEF baby friendly UK conference 2024.
November 21, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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Fortune cookie speaks wisdom.
Footnote should read:
“When the algorithms allow…”
Fortune cookie reads “Be Yourself and you will feel at home anywhere.”
November 20, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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One upside to colder temperatures is ground just frozen enough to prevent a muddy dog. If my dog could have a micro climate around him that kept mud firm all year, that would be handy. Not sure he’d be thrilled about it however. #DogsofBlueSky
Stanley is a brown scruffy looking dog. He is looking towards the camera with an expression that says, “Are you taking my photo AGAIN?!”
November 18, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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I have a weekly podcast about breastfeeding and lactation. My episode, “Weaning a booby monster” is my top download. 60+ episodes. Over 110k downloads. Look for ‘Makes Milk with Emma Pickett’.

www.emmapickettbreastfeedingsupport.com/makesmilkpod
This week’s episode is the lovely Ellie from Leeds. She talks about feeding her son Ezra, managing torticollis and an abscess and listening to her gut. This image shows Ellie breastfeeding while looking proudly at the camera with a confident smile.
November 16, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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Many wooden spoons carved by my husband and being sold today at a local craft fair. Finding a hobby later in life is a very special thing and becoming talented at it is even more special.
Approximately 10 wooden carved spoons sitting on a woollen fleece rug. The ones nearest are Cherry and redder in colour. One has some bark remaining as handle decoration. One has a wheel shape carved into the handle. Around 10 wooden carved spoons of different shapes and colours. The nearest one has a paddle shape and rests on a flint stone. You can see rings within the bowl of the spoon from the natural grain of the wood. A collection of spoons carved from a beech tree. 3 are pale and thin. One is a warm brown, one is greyer with a rough bark panel as decoration on the handle.
November 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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My second post shall be a dog because the world needs friendly pets this month.
This is Stanley. Originally from Northern Ireland, now a Londoner. Likes getting close to squirrels. Dislikes cyclists walking their bikes (niche).
Stanley is a chocolate brown dog with a white flash on his chest. He is looking up at the camera as a dog friend sniffs his ear. He is smiling on a sunny day, or doing a really good dog impression of a smile.
November 12, 2024 at 3:30 PM