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Breastfeeding resources

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These resources cover a range of issues around establishing and continuing successful breastfeeding.

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Enabling children to be a healthy weight: What we need to do better in the first 1,000 days

overweight, obesity

The cost of not breastfeeding: A series of tools by Alive & Thrive

Safer Medicines in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Consortium Information Strategy

Supporting breastfeeding mothers who require anaesthesia and/or sedation

Maximising Breastmilk and Re-lactation

Breastfeeding Assessment Tools

Positioning and attachment video

Ineffective attachment video

Off to the best start leaflet

Hand expression video

Responsive Feeding Infosheet

Meeting baby for the first time video

Breastfeeding and relationships in the early days video

Maximising breastmilk video

Foreign language resources - breastfeeding

Breastfeeding and relationship building workbook

Best Beginnings videos

Introducing solid foods leaflet

Assessment of breastmilk expression checklist

Specialist services guidance

Welcome to breastfeed here posters

Call to Action video

Expressing and storing breastmilk (BfN) leaflet

Feeding twins, triplets and more (MBF) booklet

Skin-to-skin contact

Information on the value of skin-to-skin