Breastfeeding or Bottle-feeding Overview
Breastfeeding or Bottle-feeding Overview
This session aims to give you a complete overview regarding your choice of infant feeding.
Breast-feeding:
If you have decided to breastfeed, the session is recommended as a face-to-face session two hour session.
This will cover:
- Attachment and positioning (practical holding & positioning demonstration with doll)
- Signs of a good breastfeed
- Knowing your baby is getting enough breastmilk
- Signs of mastitis and when to seek help
- Signs of tongue-tie
- Introducing you to local support groups
Bottle-feeding:
If you have decided to bottle-feed your baby, the session will cover preparing and sterilizing bottles and reviewing optimum parent-to-baby attachment. It is suggested that this session would take no more than one hour and could be completed virtually.
Both topics can be enhanced with a further 30 minute ‘caring for your baby at home and signs of a ‘well baby’ overview.
Once baby is here, a post-natal infant feeding support visit can also be arranged; please ring or leave a text to arrange this particular visit.
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