NHS Borders Maternity Services

13/06/2025

Scottish Breastfeeding Week 2025 🤱☺️

12/06/2025

Day4 of ScottishBreastfeeding week 2025🤱

⭐🤱Day 4 of Scottish Breastfeeding Week 2025🤱⭐

It’s Scottish Breastfeeding Week and we would like to congratulate all four Early Years Centres in the Scottish Borders: Burnfoot, Eyemouth, Langlee and Philiphaugh on recently achieving full accreditation of the Scottish Breastfeeding Friendly Early Learning Award scheme and contributing to a social and cultural change by promoting an early years environment where breastfeeding is seen as the normal way to feed infants and young children.

The vision is for Scotland to become a breastfeeding friendly society, valuing breastfeeding and supporting mothers and babies to breastfeed wherever and whenever they wish.

The Breastfeeding Friendly Early Years scheme was created to support nurseries and early years settings to:
🤱Promote a breastfeeding friendly environment
🤱Support families and colleagues who breastfeed
🤱Learn more about the benefits of breastfeeding

Early Years settings are also encouraged to:
⭐Adopt a Breastfeeding and Returning to Work policy to assure pregnant and breastfeeding employees that should they wish to; they will be supported to continue breastfeeding on return to work
⭐Be aware of local services where breastfeeding families can access support and information and to signpost families to this support if desired

If you are an early years setting interested in signing up to scheme and would like some more information then please contact: breastfeeding.friendly@borders.scot.nhs.uk

10/06/2025

New babies have a strong need to be close to their parents,
as this helps them to feel secure and loved.🥰

When babies feel secure, they release a hormone called oxytocin.
This acts like a fertiliser for their growing brain, helping them to be
happy babies and more confident children and adults.

Holding, smiling and talking to your baby also releases oxytocin in you,
which helps you to feel calm and happy.💕💕

09/06/2025

Welcome to our May babies 🤰🏻🤱🏻👶🏼

09/06/2025

Scottish Breastfeeding Week 2025 🎉
This is the 20th anniversary of the Breast Feeding(Scotland) Act 2005
Our focus for this week is on breastfeeding and how it can support babies growth and development.
We will post updates throughout the week

19/05/2025

Our lovely, kind and thoughtful Neonatal colleague Zoe Warner nominated the Midwifery team on through Blue Light Card. She only went and won the prize of a beautiful hamper which was delivered today!
Thank you so much Zoe, so kind of you, the team are delighted!

16/05/2025

Huge congratulations to all of the teams - amazing effort 👏🤩💫🌟

12/05/2025

Today we celebrated with our Special Care Baby Unit and Paediatric Nurses!
They are an amazing team!
Cake was had by all 🧁

05/05/2025

Our fabulous Community Midwives managed to come together for a well deserved cup of tea on International Day of the Midwife

05/05/2025

Today on International 🌎 Day of the Midwife we celebrate our dedicated team of midwives!

01/05/2025

Looking forward to International Day of the Midwife ❤️💙💜💛💚
And a big congratulations to Claire and James on the arrival of their son 👶

🎉 A big congratulations and thank you to Claire, James and their beautiful wee boy Maxwell for helping make our International Day of the Midwife content extra special!

👀 Pop back here on Monday to see it!

15/04/2025

Paula McDevitt and her family have raised an enormous amount of money to buy our maternity unit a Cuddle Cot to be used by bereaved families who wish to take their baby home. This will make a huge difference to families.
Paula made this donation in memory of her son CJ 💙

A mum has paid tribute to the son she lost in childbirth by bringing comfort to others who suffer such heartache.