Carol Bartle has a nursing, midwifery, and lactation consultant background and she has a post-graduate diploma in Child Advocacy, and a Master of Health Sciences from the University of Otago. Her thesis explores mothers’ experiences of initiating lactation and establishing breastfeeding in a neonatal intensive care environment. Major interests include ethics, infant feeding in emergencies, climate change and health, the International Code, breastfeeding and infant feeding politics, women’s health, neonatal unit feeding matters and mothers and babies in prison. Carol is an international and national speaker on infant and young child feeding and is a member of the MOH Code in NZ Compliance Panel, and an active member of International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) global working groups. She has been actively involved from inception with the development of donor milk banking in Aotearoa New Zealand with both the Christchurch NICU milk bank and the Rotary Community Breast Milk Bank. Carol is a policy analyst with the New Zealand College of Midwives and has a strong interest in supporting ‘green feeding’ and ‘green midwifery’, with a focus on environmentally sustainable work and practice, and the reduction of carbon footprints from birth.
