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Breastfeeding & Infant Feeding and Tongue Tie Management

  

Breastfeeding is a great way to get your baby off to the best start.

Reviewed on : 21 Jul 2025

Reviewed by : Gateway Editor

Expires : 21 Jul 2027

Breastfeeding & Infant Feeding

See also: GP Gateway Tongue Tie Management & Infant Breast Feeding Support

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is a great way to get your baby off to the best start. It has all the nutrients your baby needs for the first 6 months, boosts a baby’s ability to fight illness and infection, and helps protect mums against breast and ovarian cancer, and much more

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Coventry Guidance  

 

About the Infant Feeding Team

We are a team of UNICEF BFI Trained and Accredited Breastfeeding Peer Support Workers, managed by a Registered Adult Nurse.

What does our team offer?

Contact us for:

  • Information on building a close and loving relationship with your baby, before and after baby is born.
  • Details of the health benefits of breastfeeding for Mum and Baby
  • Information on brain development, oxytocin, effective milk transfer, responsive feeding and more
  • Support and advice with all aspects of infant feeding
  • Support at weekday support groups / post-natal clinics / baby weigh clinics
  • Weekday WhatsApp video consultations and daily telephone consultations
Our Working Partners
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
  • Health Visiting
  • Maternity Services
  • Family Health and Lifestyle Service Coventry
  • Coventry University

How to contact us:

Tel: 07904984620 or the Main Family Health and Lifestyle Service Coventry: 02475189190

Useful links:

Visit our Linktree for up to date information – coventryift | Facebook | Linktree

 

 

 

South Warwickshire Guidance  
Warwickshire Community Infant Feeding Team

Warwickshire Community Feeding Team supports North & South Warwickshire and Rugby

Our Infant Feeding team is made up of Lactation Consultants, Midwives, Health Visitors, Nurses, Support Workers, and Administrators

We offer a free service to families across Warwickshire, however, please click on the link below for the service offer in your area as this does look different across Warwickshire:

nhswarwickshirebreastfeeding | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

We offer:

  • Antenatal sessions
  • Free volunteer training
  • Staff trained in tongue function assessment
  • Various referral methods and digital resources
  • Training for Health Professionals across Warwickshire
  • After an initial discussion we offer a package of care tailored to your needs
  • We promote relationship building, skin to skin, effective milk transfer, baby brain development, responsive feeding, positioning and attachment, emotional attachment, close and loving relationships and more
  • Warwickshire Health Visiting have achieved GOLD Baby Friendly Accreditation (the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative enables public services to better support families with feeding and developing close and loving relationships so that all babies get the best possible start in life)

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