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In 2020 HIFN coordinated a national collaboration of NHS Trusts to perform an audit of excessive weight loss in the early weeks of life - with the aim of helping individual Trusts to benchmark their performance. As this coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, we could also use this data to look at whether the pandemic was associated with any changes in rates of excessive weight loss and dehydration.

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With thanks to the Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, West Middlesex Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, St Georges University Hospital NHS Trust, Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust, Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust, Suzanne Mcallister, Emily Todd, Dieudonne Birahinduka, Laura de Rooy, Kate Westwood, Elizabeth Gunn and all the other NHS Trusts and staff submitting data who did not explicitly give permission to be named.

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The criteria for the audit are described on this legacy page.

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The full results of the audit can be downloaded here.

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Here is an academic poster summarising the results:

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You may have noticed that we use 'additive' language on our website to refer to lactation and human milk feeding. This means that we might refer to 'breastfeeding/chestfeeding'. Chestfeeding is a term that some trans and non-binary people use to refer to feeding their child at the chest if the word breast is not congruent with their gender identity. Using additive language helps reduce a feeling of exclusion for non-binary and transgender people, without taking away from the importance of words like breastfeeding and mother. We do not always use additive language - for example when using infographics created by other organisations or referring to scientific research that didn't use additive language as this may not generalisable. There is a much more detailed description of the additive approach here.

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