Infant feeding in Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham
Support with feeding is offered by all members of the health visiting team at the new birth visit and any follow up contacts at home or in the child health clinic.
Health visitors, community nurses and nursery nurses undertake the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Breastfeeding training and can provide mothers and families with information and practical support to help you achieve your breastfeeding goals. How you feed your baby is a personal choice and we are here to support you and your baby with whatever feeding choices you make and at any stage. This includes providing support and information about breastfeeding, mixed feeding, formula feeding and introducing solids at 6 months.
Specialist breastfeeding support is offered by appointment in children's centres and run by a member of the health visiting team who has had additional experience and breastfeeding training. If you have any questions or concerns about feeding your baby please contact your health visiting team directly or call 0208 200 2500 (option 2).
Please see useful resources below:
- Breastfeeding Network - Expressing and Storing Breastmilk
- Global health media films on all aspects of breastfeeding (available in different languages)
- UNICEF - Maximising breastmilk
- UNICEF - Positioning & attachment
- UNICEF - Ineffective attachment
- UNICEF - Hand expression films
- UNICEF - Infant formula and responsive bottle feeding
- UNICEF - Breastfeeding & bottle feeding guides in other languages
- iHV - How to help if your baby has Reflux
- First Steps Nutrition - Eating well in the first year
- NHS - Weaning resources
- CLCH - Introduction to solid foods leaflet
- CLCH - Introducing Solids video
- CLCH - Infant Feeding: Introduction to Sleep video
- The Lullaby Trust - Safer sleep advice, reducing the risk of SIDS
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BASIS Baby sleep information - https://www.basisonline.org.uk/
Below are the checklists our health visiting teams use to check that feeding is going well and identify any areas where you may need additional help. You can use them too: