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The Swindon Tongue Tie Clinic | Expert Baby Tongue Tie Treatment & Feeding Support – Professional tongue tie assessments in Swindon

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The Swindon Tongue Tie Clinic provides expert tongue tie assessments and frenulotomy for babies up to 6 months. Based in Swindon and easily accessible from Bristol, Oxford and Bath. Same-week appointments, home visits, and IBCLC feeding support available.

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The Tongue Tie Clinic | Infant feeding support breast or bottle fed | Unit 3C, The Bramery, Alstone Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK, GL51 8HE

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The Tongue Tie Clinic in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and Bristol provide specialist assessment of Tongue Ties (ankyloglossia) and frenulotomy (Tongue Tie divisions). We also support with infant feeding difficulties during out consultations.

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Most people have a frenulum under their tongue.

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Daily skin-to-skin contact alters microbiota development in healthy full-term infants

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The gut microbiota is vital for human body development and function. Its development in early life is influenced by various environmental factors. In this randomized controlled trial, the gut microbiota was obtained as a secondary outcome measure in…

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Benefits

1. Temperature regulation

2. Reduction in stress hormones

3. Improves bonding and brain development

4. Increases oxytocin

5. Reduces time for delivery of placenta

6. Helps with lactogenesis ii

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Skin-to-skin contact - Baby Friendly Initiative

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Skin-to-skin contact is important for babies and mothers to develop close, loving parent-infant relationships and to initiate breastfeeding.

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https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/our-services/a-z-services/neonatal-intensive-care-unit/nicu-facilities

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NICU Facilities | North Bristol NHS Trust

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At Southmead Hospital NICU we are proud of our extensive facilities available for family use. Our unit philosophy is to provide a high standard of family-centred care from admission to discharge, with mutual respect and open communication promoted at all times.

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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Neonatal Unit (NNU) Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

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Support measures for breastfeeding/expressing employees. 

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Support measures for breastfeeding/expressing employees. 

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Pumping breaks

Flexi contracts

Fridge Storage for expressed milk for staff only

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Baby Connections is a free weekly drop-in infant feeding support group.

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Reluctant feeding in a Term healthy baby in the first 72 hours

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What workplaces should provide to support breastfeeding mothers

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What workplaces should provide to support breastfeeding mothers

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Pumping/feeding breaks

Places to store EBM in a specific fridge to keep fridge from fluctuating in temperature

Flexible working hours to promote night feeds and maintain supply

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La leche league

https://www.bathrocks.co.uk/things-to-do/la-leche-league-bath

Breastfeeding network

https://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/drop-in-centres-map/drop-in/

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Bath La Leche League offers friendly breastfeeding support and chat through our weekly meetings, on Facebook and on What’s App (What’s App details available via email or our Facebook group). Currently we meet on zoom every Tuesday morning between 10.30 and 11.30.

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https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/social-care-and-health/children-and-families/help-for-families/start-for-life/baby/bristol-breastfeeding-support-groups

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Swindon Breastmates, Swindon. 3,000 likes · 31 talking about this. This page provides information about local infant feeding support, in and around Swindon. If you wish to access online feeding…

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British Association of Perinatal Medicine

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Identification and Management of Neonatal Hypoglycaemia in the Full Term Infant (Birth – 72 hours)

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MyStaff App

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Maternity Services at North Bristol NHS Trust provides a full range of maternity care. More than 6,000 babies are born with us every year and our dedicated midwives, doctors, maternity healthcare assistants (MCAs) and support staff are committed to giving you personalised care of the highest standard.

We have a range of choices for place of birth, including:

Home birth - a planned birth at home with care provided by midwives during labour and birth.

Cossham Birth Centre - is a standalone Birth Centre led by midwives, based in Kingswood, and is a birth place option for women without complications who have been assessed antenatally as suitable by their midwife. Cosham Birth Centre's Jade Team can also care for women from anywhere in Bristol throughout the whole Pregnancy, Birth and Postnatal period.

Mendip Birth Centre - an Alongside Midwifery Unit (AMU) at Southmead Hospital: offering care to women with straightforward pregnancies during labour and birth in which midwives take primary professional responsibility for your care. During labour and birth medical services, including obstetric, neonatal and anaesthetic care are available should they be needed, in the same building. Transfer will normally be by bed or wheelchair.

Central Delivery Suite - an Obstetric Unit (OU) where care is provided by a team, with obstetricians taking primary professional responsibility for women at high risk of complications during labour and birth. Midwives offer care to all women in an OU, whether or not they are considered at high or low risk, and take primary responsibility for women with straightforward pregnancies during labour and birth. Medical services including obstetric, neonatal and anaesthetic care are available on site, 24 hours a day.

Our maternity facilities offer en-suite birth rooms, birth pools, overnight partner stays if labour is induced and following the birth, full range of complementary therapies and pain management and free parking for women in active labour, and their partners, on the Southmead Hospital site. We also have a 24-hour seven days a week Antenatal Assessment Unit and a family room available at Southmead Hospital. We have a variety of single and shared rooms, if you wish to speak to someone confidentially please speak to a member of staff.

Our Community Midwifery teams are based at a variety of places such as GP surgeries, Health Centres, Clinics or Children's Centres. They provide care with the assistance of maternity care assistants (MCA) during the antenatal and postnatal period across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG).

We are proud to have Baby Friendly accreditation and support all families in their choice of feeding. We have the Southwest Neonatal Network Donor Milkbank which is a milk donor facility to support pre-term infants.

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Maternity Services at North Bristol NHS Trust provides a full range of maternity care.

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Maternity

Feeding and Caring for your baby

In pregnancy

Your midwifery care in pregnancy will include several conversations about feeding and caring for your baby after birth so that you feel well prepared and have a chance to ask questions you have. Your midwife will also signpost you to several sources of information we recommend including the Real Baby Milk leaflet available to expectant and new parents across the Bath, Swindon and Salisbury Local Maternity System.

After birth

Support for feeding and caring for your baby is an important part of postnatal care and it will be tailored to each mother's and baby's needs.

Again there will be time for conversation about these topics ensuring that you grow in confidence over the time of your postnatal care.

Specialist Support

Occasionally mothers and babies need some extra support and this is also available. Your midwife will refer you to the Specialist Infant Feeding team. They will contact you by phone to discuss your needs and how they can be met.

Tongue tie assessment and division service

If you and your baby are experiencing feeding difficulties that are not resolving and a tongue tie is suspected you will be referred into the service. The Infant Feeding Specialist will contact you by phone, discuss your situation and offer you an appointment for assessment if you need one. Usually within 1 week of referral.

If you think you have been referred but have not heard from us within 3 working days then please email ruh-tr.infantfeeding@nhs.net

Mum2Mum Breastfeeding Peer Support

Breastfeeding Peer Supporters are mothers who have breastfed themselves and who (after training) offer support to other mothers as volunteers. They work in a variety of setting including on Mary Ward at the Royal United Hospital, in Children's Centres in Wiltshire and on line.

Contact them on Facebook in pregnancy or after birth:
Bath & West Wiltshire Breastfeeding Peer Support
Formula feeding of babies

If you are feeding your baby with baby formula milk it is important that formula milk is prepared as directed on the manufacturer's instructions and is not watered down as this will result in your baby not receiving the adequate nutrients required for health.

It is also important that the correct stage baby milk is used for your baby eg. First Infant formula (Stage 1 milk). Follow on formula milk should never be used for babies under 6 months and they can continue to have First Milk up the age of one year as part of their diet.

If you have any problems obtaining formula milk, try shopping around smaller shops if you can't find it in your usual supermarket. The manufacturers are still distributing regular supplies to shops and increasing production.

Find out more here:
Bottle Feeding - Start for Life
Infant Feeding Support Videos
How lactation works Human Milk, Tailor-made for Tiny Humans Global Health Feeding Videos Call to action Meeting baby for the first time Positioning and attachment

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Information Services Department, Royal United Hospital

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Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

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https://www.ruh.nhs.uk - Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

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You can find more information and support from these infant feeding support groups in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Parents are warmly encouraged to go along to the groups to get support and encouragement from other parents, trained staff and volunteers.
Bristol
The Bristol City Council website has details of all the breastfeeding support groups across the city and the Bristol Breastfeeding Welcome scheme. The page also has links to helpful websites and services in Bristol which provide breastfeeding support for anyone who does not speak English as their first language.
South Gloucestershire
Our Health Visiting page has details of all the Baby Hubs and Breastfeeding groups across South Gloucestershire.
North Somerset
The North Somerset Council website has details of all the breastfeeding support groups across the area and the North Somerset Breastfeeding Welcome scheme.
Useful information
Information on how to get help from a health visitor is available on our Health Visiting page.

The National Breastfeeding Helpline number is 0300 100 0212 and is open 9.30am-9.30pm every day.

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You can find more information and support from these infant feeding support groups in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Parents are warmly encouraged to go along to the groups to get support and encouragement from other parents, trained staff and volunteers.