Infant Feeding

Support and information on breastfeeding, bottle feeding and introducing solids to your baby

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Our Essential Guide to feeding & caring for your baby contains a variety of information to support new parents including:

  • Bonding with your baby during pregnancy
  • What to pack in your hospital bag
  • Benefits of breastfeeding
  • Importance of skin to skin
  • Baby’s brain development
  • Feeding cues
  • Breastfeeding positions
  • How to tell if baby is getting enough milk
  • Safe sleep and so much more…

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Information

Infant Feeding tagsHealth Pregnancy tagsHealthy Baby tagsBreastfeeding and Parenting – BookshelfA great selection of books on breastfeeding and parenting with specialist titles on other topics including sleep and introducing solid…Find out more about 'Breastfeeding and Parenting – Bookshelf'Save Breastfeeding and Parenting – Bookshelf to favourites
Infant Feeding tagsHealth Pregnancy tagsBreastfeeding your baby – video libraryIf you are looking for information on breastfeeding, feeding positions and feeding cues, take a look at these videos. The…Find out more about 'Breastfeeding your baby – video library'Save Breastfeeding your baby – video library to favourites
Mother cradling newborn babyInfant Feeding tagsHealth Pregnancy tagsHealthy Baby tagsFeeding and caring for your baby – leaflet libraryEverything you need to know to feed and care for your baby.Find out more about 'Feeding and caring for your baby – leaflet library'Save Feeding and caring for your baby – leaflet library to favourites
Infant Feeding tagsEat Well tagsIntroducing Solid FoodSupporting you to feed your baby.Find out more about 'Introducing Solid Food'Save Introducing Solid Food to favourites
Eat Well tagsInfant Feeding tagsSmokefree Pregnancy tagsHealthy Start Scheme- Get Help to Buy Food and Milk by Anna DedmanWhat is Healthy Start? Healthy Start is a scheme to help towards the cost of buying healthy food, milk and…Find out more about 'Healthy Start Scheme- Get Help to Buy Food and Milk'Save Healthy Start Scheme- Get Help to Buy Food and Milk to favourites

Support

Infant Feeding tagsBreastfeeding WelcomeFind out which settings have signed up to our North Somerset Breastfeeding Welcome schemeFind out more about 'Breastfeeding Welcome'Save Breastfeeding Welcome to favourites
Breastfeeding support groupInfant Feeding tagsBreastfeeding support groupsAll the support groups are friendly and welcoming and run by local peer supporters in conjunction with North Somerset Children’s…Find out more about 'Breastfeeding support groups'Save Breastfeeding support groups to favourites
Infant Feeding tagsBreastfeeding support Facebook groupsFacebook Support Groups We have 4 Facebook breastfeeding support groups run by our volunteer peer supporters. You can post questions…Find out more about 'Breastfeeding support Facebook groups'Save Breastfeeding support Facebook groups to favourites

Stories

Infant Feeding tagsMeet the Peer Supporter – Gemma BrownI absolutely love breastfeeding. Like, really love it. From the moment Dotty latched on not long after being born I felt…Find out more about 'Meet the Peer Supporter – Gemma Brown'Save Meet the Peer Supporter – Gemma Brown to favourites