Addy Henderson IBCLC RHV
Lactation Consultant and Health Visitor
I have worked in the NHS for 30 years.
I began my training as a nurse at Charing Cross Hospital in London and continued as a Sick Children’s Nurse and then Health Visitor in Oxford.
During my Health Visiting career I have always found helping women to breastfeed very rewarding.
In more recent years I have increased my knowledge and skills of lactation, culminating in achieving my personal ambition to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
This involved taking an exam, having first completed 2,500 hours of one to one consultations helping mothers to breastfeed and many hours of study.
I helped set up the Aylesbury Breastfeeding Clinic in 2002 and continue to work there as a Breastfeeding Advisor. It was here that I met Luci.
I have extended my Health Visitor role to become Breastfeeding Coordinator for Bucks Primary Care Trust. This has enabled me to promote and encourage the importance of breastfeeding support within the community.
I have facilitated the opening of breastfeeding support groups and trained both health professionals and volunteer mothers to help run these, working closely with charities such as the NCT.
I also have extensive experience of home visits helping women to breastfeed.
Luci Lishman IBCLC RM
Lactation Consultant and Midwife
I have been working for the NHS since 1986 when I started my
General Nurse
training at The Middlesex Hospital in London.
Later I trained as a midwife at Wycombe General Hospital and have been working as a qualified Midwife at Stoke Mandeville Hospital since 1992.
As a midwife I have always found it a joy and privilege to provide breastfeeding help and support.
Over the years it has been my ambition to increase my knowledge and skills to do this more effectively.
In 2006 after extensive study and clinical experience I was able to fulfil my goal of passing the exam to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
I was able to obtain this experience more easily when I was given the role of Breastfeeding Midwife in 2002.
I was involved with the setting up of Aylesbury Breastfeeding Clinic and continue to work there with Addy and other dedicated Health Visitors and Midwives.
I have also run breastfeeding parentcraft sessions and helped to train hospital and community based staff. This has included members of voluntary organisations and charities such as the NCT.
My experience has mainly been hospital based and so I am looking forward to supporting mothers in the comfort of their own home at times to suit their needs.
About us
“Working with you to support your breastfeeding needs”
Whilst working together we discovered a shared passion for enabling women to have a positive and enjoyable experience of breastfeeding.
This led to the setting up of the Chiltern Breastfeeding Partnership.
We are both members of the Lactation Consultants of Great Britain and the International Lactation Consultants Association
