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    • Impact of infant feeding
    • Anatomy & physiology
    • Positioning & attachment
    • How to assess efficacy
    • State of lactation in the UK
    • Community support
    • Infant Formula
    • Types of formula milk
    • The WHO Code
    • The lactating health professional
    • Where to get more training
    • Resources
    • Campaigns: Don't Say Stop Look It Up
    • Campaigns: Separation in Hospitals
    • Factsheet on Covid vaccination
    • Hospital infant feeding Posters
    • Excessive weight loss report

  • Working with parents

    • Medication in lactation
    • Maternal or parental presentations
    • Obstetric Factors
    • Disability & chronic disease
    • Obesity and PCOS
    • Mental Health
    • Sex, gender and sexual orientation
    • Contraindications
    • Voice of the family
    • For GPs

  • Working with children

    • The postnatal ward
    • Excessive weight loss
    • Jaundice
    • Reluctant feeders
    • Neonatal unit/Expressing
    • Donor Human Milk
    • Emergency presentations
    • When the baby or child is admitted
    • Faltering growth
    • Crying baby
    • Complex medical conditions
    • Non-nutritional aspects
    • Contraindications to breastfeeding
    • Voice of the family
    • For GPs

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    Core Knowledge

    These pages cover basic information about breastfeeding and lactation relevant to all hospital professionals
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    • The impact of breastfeeding/chestfeeding on parents, babies and wider society
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    • Anatomy and physiology of breastfeeding/chestfeeding
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    • Basic positioning and attachment ('latching' to the breast/chest)
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    • How to assess breastfeeding/chestfeeding
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    • The state of lactation in the UK
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    • Who's who in community lactation support
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    • Independent information on formula feeding
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    • Types of infant formula milk
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    • The WHO International Code on marketing of breastmilk substitutes - What and Why?
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    • Resources to support breastfeeding/chestfeeding health professionals
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    • Where to get more training on infant feeding
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    • Useful links
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    • Downloadable resources for the "Don't Say Stop Look It Up" campaign
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    • Downloadable posters for hospital staff
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    The Australian resource for doctors "LactaMap" also covers these kinds of topics

    ABOUT US >

    Thank you for visiting the Hospital Infant Feeding Network. This website is a repository of relevant knowledge and best practice resources for health professionals. To join the conversation, ask questions and share your experiences please join us on Facebook or Twitter.

     

    We will be running Q&A sessions on various topics, which will be advertised on our social media sites. Please email if you have ideas or want to get more involved. We welcome health professionals passionate about supporting breastfeeding/chestfeeding and lactation in the hospital setting to join our steering group, please get in contact if this is you!

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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 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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