Infant Feeding by

Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative | Hand expression

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Sterilising

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Breastfeeding

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Find here a range of useful resources for parents on infant feeding and relationship building, as well as information on overcoming common breastfeeding challenges. Some resources are available individually below.

Feeding your premature or sick baby expressed milk or formula in a bottle

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Chestfeeding

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Love & Your Baby's Brain

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Tube Feeding

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Your baby may be fed using tube feeding while on the neonatal unit. Find out why this might be and information about caring for your baby while they are being tube fed.

Information about breastfeeding your premature or sick baby here, including how to get started and how to find support.

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Parenteral Nutrition

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Parenteral nutrition, also known as PN, is used to feed extremely premature or very sick babies.

Common Breastfeeding Challenges

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Home - ABM

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Lactation Consultants of Great Britain

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La Leche League GB

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National Breastfeeding Helpline

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Open 09:30am - 09:30pm
Live online support also available from online chat

Breastfeeding support from NCT

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Tips for bottle-feeding your baby

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The Breastfeeding Network | Independent Breastfeeding Support

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Support via email | Bliss

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Feeding and Prematurity: Our Story – Catriona Howard - Baby Friendly Initiative

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Ineffective attachment video

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Positioning and attachment video

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Responsive Feeding Info sheet

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Maximising breastmilk video

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Expressing in Neonatal Care

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Expressing in Neonatal Care

From bump to breastfeeding

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Breastfeeding Cues

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Common Breastfeeding Challenges

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Baby-led feeding

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Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative

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The BFI accreditation programme helps services transform their care, supporting all families with feeding and relationship building

The Standards of BFI

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Meeting baby for the first time video

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Responsive Bottle Feeding

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Breastfeeding and Relationships

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The Importance of relationship building video

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Expressing Checklist

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Your nurse can complete this checklist with you to help ensure that mothers are expressing their breastmilk effectively and to address any issues or concerns you may have.

Skin-to-skin contact - Baby Friendly Initiative

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Feeding twins, triplets and more

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Ewan McGregor reads 'Baby, I Love You'

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Breastfeeding guidance Arabic

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Bottle feeding guidance Arabic

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Breastfeeding guidance Bengali

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Bottle feeding guidance Bengali

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How Can Dads & Partners Support Breastfeeding

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Breastfeeding guidance Hindi

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Bottle feeding guidance Hindi

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Breastfeeding guidance Lithuanian

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Supporting Love & Nurture on The Neonatal Unit

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Bottle feeding guidance Lithuanian

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Breastfeeding guidance Mandarin

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Bottle feeding guidance Mandarin

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Breastfeeding guidance Polish

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Bottle feeding guidance Polish

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Breastfeeding guidance Romanian

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Bottle feeding guidance Romanian

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Breastfeeding guidance Slovak

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Bottle feeding guidance Slovak

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Breastfeeding guidance Turkish

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Bottle feeding guidance Turkish

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Breastfeeding guidance Ukrainian

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Bottle feeding guidance Ukrainian

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Breastfeeding guidance Urdu

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Bottle feeding guidance Urdu

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Bottle and breastfeeding advice available in other languages

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Bottle and breastfeeding advice available below in:

Arabic -

العربية

Bengali

বাংলা

Hindi

हिन्दी भाषा

Lithuanian

lietuvių

Mandarin

普通话

Polish

Polski

Romanian

Română

Slovak

slovenský

Turkish

Türkçe

Ukranian

українська

Urdu

لتھوانیائی

Infant Milk Information

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Breastfeeding assessment tool

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These tools are for mothers to fill in with their nurse or midwife and use several common signs to assess whether a baby is breastfeeding well and safely

Baby feeding cues

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Meet the Team

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Our Neonatal unit has a dedicated Infant Feeding Team, on hand to support you through your feeding journey on the NNU.

There is an information board inside the NNU where you can find their contact details.

All the nurses are trained to help you with feeding your baby and to support you on a one to one basis.

Infant Feeding team Board located on the right hand side as you go through the doors after reception.

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We are proud to be part of the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative and are passionate the care and support we offer to parents as partners in care to establish close and loving relationships during their journey on the NNU.
We have currently achieved Stage 1and 2 and are working towards stage 3

The BFI accreditation is in 3 stages.
Stage 1: Building a firm foundation
Stage 2: An educated workforce
Stage 3: Parents’ experiences

Bottle Feeding Assessment Tool

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This bottle feeding assessment tool may help you and your nurse or midwife to recognise if bottle feeding is going well

Skin to Skin & Kangaroo care on the NNU

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Premature and sick babies undergo many medical procedures that can cause them some discomfort. As your baby’s parents, you are the best people to balance this with a positive, reassuring touch.

Storage of Breastmilk on the NNU

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Here at Tunbridge wells, on the NNU there are fridges and freezers to store your breastmilk.

While in hospital, it is important to clearly label any milk you express, with name of baby and the date and time it was expressed.

Your milk can then be stored in the fridge for 48 hours, there is a fridge in each of our nurseries. You are welcome to access your milk, as you are the best person to keep an eye on stock and expiry dates. If you have more milk than is needed, we can store it in our freezer until you are discharged home with your baby, or if we need it in the future.

When your baby is discharged you can follow storage recommendations as below.

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We encourage all parents to visit at any time on the NNU and will help you to have early contact with your baby. This can be through positive touch, comfort holding and cuddles depending on what care and treatment your baby is requiring

Mastitis and breastfeeding

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Expressing and storing breastmilk

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Smoking and Alcohol

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The Breastfeeding Support Network and Supportline

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Breastfeeding with a disability

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Black breastfeeding matters

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Breastfeeding If You Are On The Autistic Spectrum

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Breastfeeding a baby with Downs Syndrome

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Drugs in breastmilk

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Pain: if breastfeeding hurts

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Low milk supply and helping your baby gain weight

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My baby won't latch on

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Rent Breast Pumps | Hospital Grade Breastpumps | Symphony | Medela

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Breast Pumps in Kent - Kent Baby Matters

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Carum 14 day Rental

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The Trick to Getting a Free Breast Pump Through Insurance

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If you choose to use a sling please follow "The T.I.C.K.S. Rule for Safe Baby wearing"

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Poor attachment video

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How baby umbrella can support you

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Baby Umbrella | Facebook

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Breastfeeding support

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Kent County Council support

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Please refer to the Kent County website for additional information in your area

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Written and updated by Neonatal Matron and Neonatal Ward Manager
(First published 2nd October 2023)

Your baby may not not be ready for all feeds to given by breast or bottle and will need some tube feeds. If you would like to do the tube feeds, please talk with your nurse to help with some training

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Do you have too much milk and would like to donate your expressed breast milk?

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Inducing Lactation & Breastfeeding Without Giving Birth

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Breastfeeding as a trans dad: 'A baby doesn't know what your pronouns are'

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Can You Get Pregnant While Breastfeeding?

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Drugs in breastmilk

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Local Support Groups

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See below for some local feeding support groups, for you and your little one :)

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Moat breastfeeding Support

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Responsive Fedding

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FAQ's - Bottle feeding

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Follow link for answers to some of the most frequently asked questions, including how long a formula feed can be kept for before using.

How to make up formula feeds

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