Zainab Yate

Zainab Yate BSc, MSc ( Medical Ethics & Law, Imperial College) is an international speaker, independent researcher & campaigner, and published the first study looking at Breastfeeding / Nursing Aversion and Agitation in 2017 after struggling to find any research or literature about the phenomenon when suffering from it herself.

She has been a breastfeeding peer supporter with the NHS for a number of years and is author of the only resource site for mothers and healthcare practitioners on aversion www.breastfeedingaversion.com, where she researches and writes for the website viewers, to understand aversion and why it arises. She has helped thousands of women when breastfeeding triggers negative emotions through her free structured support course and peer to peer support group online.

Her professional background is a decade in Public Health and Commissioning within the NHS, and she is currently Vice Chair and named qualitative lead of the North London Research Ethics Committee, with the Health Research Authority in the UK (HRA). She is founder of Infant Feeding Research Ethics, and a member of the King's College London Research Ethics, Governance Policy & Integrity Committee (KCL). In both roles she is a breastfeeding advocate and infant feeding research ethics expert for the committees

In her debut book she presents a rigorously researched non-fiction book that shows how and why breastfeeding can trigger particular negative emotions and intrusive thoughts, and what to do about it using a unique mnemonic the author created - BROMPHALLIC. Of interest to breastfeeding mothers, and the doctors, midwives, health visitors and breastfeeding educators who support them.