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One-to-One Breastfeeding Support

One-to-One Breastfeeding Support

One-to-One Breastfeeding Support

A personal one-to-one service offering breastfeeding support by a fully trained Infant Feeding Support Worker. This service is available on the maternity ward and in your home during your baby’s first 6 weeks.

Update to the service

Update to the service

We are making a change to the way new mums access the one-to-one breastfeeding service.

New mums (or any women/pregnant women) with due dates after January 1st, 2025, can access one-to-one breastfeeding support by speaking directly with a one-to-one Infant Feeding Support Worker, on the maternity ward. This service is available on the maternity ward and in your home during your baby’s first 6 weeks for all mothers living in Kursaal, Shoebury, West Shoebury, and Victoria wards. We are no longer pre-booking new mothers onto the service antenatally.

About the Support

Our dedicated team of Infant Feeding Support Workers are available to assist with all your breastfeeding needs. They are equipped to refer to specialists for more intricate needs and offer both informational and practical support. The one-to-one service is accessible to all mothers living in the Kursaal, Shoebury, West Shoebury, and Victoria wards. Our Support Workers can provide guidance and advice on the following:

  • The benefits of breastmilk and breastfeeding
  • How to get breastfeeding off to a good start
  • The importance of developing a relationship with your baby both during and after pregnancy
  • Positioning and attachment
  • Hand expressing of breast milk
  • How families and partners can support
  • Information around the Fourth Trimester
  • Normal behaviour of the new-born baby
  • Signs of effective feeding
  • Signpost to local peer support groups
  • 7 days a week support via telephone or home visits

Contact Details

For more information, please get in touch with the Infant Feeding Support team on 07880 714472 or email Betterstart.breastfeeding@nhs.net

National Breastfeeding Helpline:  Visit their website or phone their helpline (0300 100 0212) for information and support, 9.30am – 9.30pm every day

Breastfeeding Network: For more information around breastfeeding, including printables on safety of medications and breastmilk

Unicef: for information, videos and support with parenting and infant feeding and information in other languages

NHS: Expert information and support on infant feeding

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