Coventry Infant Feeding Team

22/10/2025

Did you know? With NHS Healthy Start, you could receive help towards the cost of:

🥦vegetables
🍎fruit
🥫pulses
🥛milk
🍼infant formula
+ FREE Healthy Start vitamins!

Could you be eligible? Find out more by visiting: https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/how-to-apply/

20/10/2025

✨ Wishing all who celebrate a bright and joyful Diwali! May this season of light bring happiness, peace, and prosperity. 🪔

15/10/2025

If they could tell you, they’d say wait until around 6 months to start solids. Visit Start for Life for easy weaning recipes.

NHS tips and advice
https://www.nhs.uk/start-for-life/baby/recipes-and-meal-ideas/



Image description:
A baby laughing with his tongue sticking out with the caption "Tongue out taste buds ready"

15/10/2025

Have you visited the Best Start in Life Parent Hub?

On the Best Start in Life Parent Hub, you'll find valuable guidance and support on a wide range of topics, including pregnancy, breastfeeding, first teeth, introducing solids, childcare, and the transition to school. Moreover, you can access resources designed to assist in your child's growth and development.

https://www.beststartinlife.gov.uk/

The Best Start in Life parent hub

08/10/2025

There are many reasons why you may be considering, or already have had, a caesarean birth.

However your baby enters the world, careful planning, collaboration with your care team, and active, informed participation can all help create a positive, empowering birth. And that matters – not just for you, but for getting breastfeeding off to the best possible start. Our newly revised and updated article has tips and information to help you.

laleche.org.uk/caesarean-birth-and-breastfeeding/

[Image: A mother lying on her back immediately after a caesarean birth, with her newborn on her chest, skin-to-skin, inside her top. Text: Caesarean birth and breastfeeding]

08/10/2025

Seeking Support for ?

Are you or someone you know attempting to quit smoking this ?

You’re three times more likely to successfully quit with assistance from your local stop smoking service.

Discover effective and supportive resources to help you stop smoking, available to you at no cost: smokefreecw.co.uk

07/10/2025

If you’re pregnant, you’re eligible for flu, RSV and whooping cough vaccines. Speak to your midwife, GP practice or pharmacist about vaccinations. 👩‍⚕️💬🤰

Visit nhs.uk/PregnancyVaccinations for more details.

07/10/2025

💛 Colostrum, also called liquid gold, is the very first food your baby receives, a powerful start full of antibodies, nutrients, and love.

In the first days after birth, your body makes small amounts of this golden milk, rich, concentrated, and perfectly designed for your newborn’s needs.

Adapted from our article: “Colostrum: Prenatal / Antenatal Expression.”
📖 https://llli.org/breastfeeding-info/colostrum-prenatal-antenatal-expression

Note: 📷 Taken in 2020 during the COVID-19 quarantine, this real photo, shared by a mother, reminds us of the essential role colostrum and close contact played when the world needed protection the most. 💛

06/10/2025

Check out this post from the Infant Feeding team at UHCW highlighting the advantages of antenatal expression.

To learn more about the support services provided by the Infant Feeding team at UHCW, visit their Linktree: https://linktr.ee/uhcwinfantfeeding

Maternity Services at UHCW NHS Trust

Did you know that we have our own Infant Feeding Team at UHCW?

Check out their Linktree for lots of useful information including classes that they have available, too - QR code can be found below!

01/10/2025

Do you want to join our next infant feeding workshop on the 22nd October at 10am to learn more in depth about how to get feeding off to a good start?

Topics covered include:
• relationship building
• optimal baby brain development
• responsive feeding
• antenatal hand expression
• positioning and attachment
• how to tell that baby is feeding well/milk transfer signs
• what's the difference between breast milk and formula?
• what can you do or try to minimize to get feeding off to a good start in the early weeks
• community infant feeding support networks
• 9 instinctive stages
• skin to skin, your baby's microbiome and how you can influence this
and much more!
There is plenty of time to ask questions or discuss previous feeding experiences

Our Infant Feeding Team looks forward to meeting you and your birth partner - please email jaspreet.malhi@uhcw.nhs.uk for further information
or sign up using the link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pregnancy-infant-feeding-workshop-tickets-1693103270459?aff=oddtdtcreator

01/10/2025

📣📣📣📣

FLU VACCINES ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN MATERNITY

Your vaccinations can take place at UHCW or St Cross!
UHCW vaccinations take place in our Antenatal Clinic, Monday - Friday between 09:00 and 16:00 🕘
St Cross Rugby vaccinations take place at the Owen Building on Tuesdays and Fridays, between 09:00 and 16:00 🕓
You can choose to drop in at both sites, or please contact us via email if you would like to book an appointment slot! 📍
You can find more information on the vaccinations recommended in pregnancy here

https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-well/vaccinations/

01/10/2025

Nobody likes to disturb a sleeping baby, but sometimes a newborn baby can be too sleepy for their own good. At times like this they may need you to take action. Our article has information and tips on what to do if you have a sleepy newborn.

https://www.laleche.org.uk/sleepy-baby-why-and-what-to-do/

[Image: newborn in an orange sleepsuit asleep. Text: Is my newborn too sleepy?]