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The infant feeding team is a specialist team working alongside the Healthy Child Programme in both West Sussex and Brighton and Hove. The team consists of Specialist Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses and Lactation Consultants.
The Healthy Child Programme in West Sussex was one of the first in the Southeast to receive a Unicef UK Baby Friendly Gold award, recognising excellent and sustained practice in the support of infant feeding and parent-infant relationships. We are currently working towards this award in Brighton and Hove.
The team can provide 1-1 support for complex and persistent breastfeeding/infant feeding challenges. We also support colleagues and provide education and training to Healthy child programme staff. Referrals are accepted via your health visitor.
Milk! groups offer infant feeding support for all families.
We are supported to run our MILK! Clinics by our team of peer supporters. These are volunteers who have undertaken training to provide mother to mother breastfeeding support.
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Please speak to your local health visitor team if you would like support with Infant Feeding and to access the Milk! Support Groups and appointments with the specialist teams.
