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Deciding how to feed your new baby is a major decision that can be influenced by many different events and experiences. As specialists in child health and development from pregnancy to the age of 5 years the Health Visiting Team and Family Support Service would like to invite you to view our Antenatal Breastfeeding Webinar. This is a free resource (under 1 hour long) and can be watched as often as you like. You may be unsure how you will feed your baby, so this webinar aims to explain the value of breastfeeding as protection, comfort and food and how to get breastfeeding off to a good start.
Please click on link below for antenatal webinar:
Breastfeeding Antenatal Workshop Webinar
The Webinar includes information on:
- Health benefits of breastfeeding for mother & baby
- Connecting with baby within the womb – the beginning of a close & loving relationship
- Breastmilk – your superpower, how lactation works
- Skin to skin contact post birth – the magical hour
- Positioning and attachment – how to breastfeed
- Importance of responsive breastfeeding
- Sucking pattern and stages of a breastfeed
- What can partners do to support breastfeeding
- Tips for breastfeeding in public
- Useful resources
Colostrum Harvesting
This webinar does not explain colostrum harvesting. If you would like more information on how to harvest your colostrum in the antenatal period, please speak to your midwife for advice and guidance on how to do this safely. General information is available on this website:
