About Bump Boobs Babi

Who are you?

I am Helen Rop­er. I qual­i­fied as a mid­wife in 2005, which feels like a very long time ago. Even while I was a stu­dent mid­wife I knew I wanted to spe­cial­ise in infant feed­ing, spend­ing hours in the breast­feed­ing clin­ic and in 2010 I qual­i­fied as an Inter­na­tion­al board cer­ti­fied lacta­tion con­sult­ant (IBCLC) which is the gold stand­ard in lacta­tion sup­port. I went onto work as the Infant feed­ing lead mid­wife at the Roy­al Free Hos­pit­al in Lon­don for eight years before hav­ing my own chil­dren and more recently train­ing as a tongue tie prac­ti­tion­er. I still work as a com­munity mid­wife sev­er­al days a month. I find the fam­il­ies I work with have been my greatest teach­ers in infant feed­ing and par­ent­ing and I love help­ing fam­il­ies reach their feed­ing goals.

Hav­ing my own chil­dren cer­tainly broadened by infant feed­ing exper­i­ence. My first daugh­ter Rumer had tri­somy 18 and spent most of her short life in hos­pit­al, She was tube fed (both NG and G tube) and was nev­er able to take bottle or breast. I spent a lot of time pump­ing, not ter­ribly suc­cess­fully because as I later dis­covered I had a phys­ic­al con­di­tion caus­ing low sup­ply and she also had donor milk. I mixed-fed my sub­sequent two chil­dren using breast, bottles and a sup­ple­ment­ary nurs­ing sys­tem at the breast. Both breast­fed into tod­dler­hood and the young­est is still going!  It gave me lots of exper­i­ence in early weight loss, low sup­ply, mixed feed­ing, using for­mula, express­ing… Both my chil­dren had tongue ties and we chose to divide my daugh­ter­’s but not my son’s.

Why Bump Boobs Babi?

I wanted a name that reflec­ted what we did, We sup­port fam­il­ies through preg­nancy, breast­feed­ing and baby care. Babi is the Welsh for baby.