Breastfeeding Friendly Inverclyde

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

Join us in Greenock every Thursday 🤱🏽💜

Inverclyde Health Visiting Team
Breastfeeding Network Greater Glasgow and Clyde

11/11/2025

It is very positive to see breastfeeding rates continuing to rise nationally. Although Inverclyde’s rates remain lower than those in Edinburgh (as compared in the article), we are pleased to report a significant increase in local mothers choosing to breastfeed, express, or combine feeding ❤️

If you are pregnant and would like to learn more about colostrum collection, expressing, breastfeeding, or mixed feeding, you are warmly invited to attend our next antenatal workshop on Tuesday 2nd December.

Further information is also available from https://www.parentclub.scot/articles/starting-breastfeed

Inverclyde Health Visiting Team

Breastfeeding rates in Scotland are at the highest level since official records began, Public Health Scotland (PHS) data shows.

04/11/2025

Mothers should never feel ashamed to breastfeed their babies.
🤱🏻🤱🏼🤱🏽🤱🏾🤱🏿🤱

From a glass of water, a chat with a friend, or a comfortable space, we can all help respect the rights of mums to breastfeed anytime, anywhere.

Let's all step up to support mums!

03/11/2025

It’s wonderful to see local mum Eilish featured in the Greenock Telegraph, sharing her inspiring story of how she’s helping to save the lives of premature babies by donating her breast milk to Milk Bank Scotland 🤍

Eilish said:

“I would encourage anyone to give expressing a try. It’s helped me so much, knowing that Sonny has benefited — and that other babies have too.
I wouldn’t have been able to do all this without the incredible support of the Bumps to Babies group.”

https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/25586630.greenock-mum-helps-save-neo-natal-babies-expressing-milk/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAN1X31jbGNrA3VfGGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEedI37Gu_kairTnBPfQrAXcRc1_QhN8X8HM3y3Kgi6_vR_onEyadyhw_1W3kA_aem__n1jxSUIEXFqfvL8VW_T2g

A Greenock mum is helping save the lives of premature babies by donating her milk and giving them a fighting chance.

28/10/2025

✨ NEW ✨

Who is joining us for the new Greenock BFN breastfeeding group on Thursday?

Inverclyde Health Visiting Team
NHSGGC Family Nurse Partnership
Inverclyde
Greenock Telegraph
Breastfeeding Network Greater Glasgow and Clyde

25/10/2025

👶 Skin-to-skin contact involves placing the naked newborn on the mother’s uncovered chest immediately after birth. This simple practice helps babies adapt to life outside the womb, keeping them warm, reducing stress and crying, and supporting vital functions such as breathing and heart rate.

New Cochrane evidence confirms what many already practice: immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers gives babies a better start in life.

Babies held skin-to-skin within the first hour after birth are more likely to:

🩵 Breastfeed exclusively
🩵 Maintain healthy body temperature and blood sugar
🩵 Breathe and adapt better outside the womb

Importantly, the evidence is now so strong that researchers argue it’s no longer ethical to conduct studies that separate mothers and babies after birth.

“Withholding skin-to-skin contact would now be considered unethical, as there is enough evidence to show that the practice improves newborn health and survival,” says Karin Cadwell, senior author and Executive Director and Lead Faculty of
Healthy Children Project Center for Breastfeeding.

Read more on our website: https://www.cochrane.org/about-us/news/strong-evidence-supports-skin-skin-contact-after-birth-standard-care

24/10/2025

Lovely to see 5x Olympic champion Dame Laura Kenny proudly sharing a photo of herself breastfeeding her third child after the Pride of Britain Awards. It’s wonderful to see such a public celebration of motherhood and normalising breastfeeding. 💕

When speaking about why she shares images of breastfeeding she said:

‘I share breastfeeding photos because my confidence to feed in public came from seeing another mum do it. That moment changed things for me, and I've always hoped that by being open, I might do the same for someone else. Breastfeeding can be beautiful, but it can also be hard and isolating. I want to help normalise it, especially in public.’

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23/10/2025

It’s ADHD Awareness Month.

The The Breastfeeding Network (UK) have a factsheet on ADHD and Breastfeeding covers:

- What ADHD is
- ADHD when you have a baby
- Treatment options – including medication

➡️ www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/factsheet/adhd-and-breastfeeding/

It’s ADHD Awareness Month!

This year’s theme is “The Many Faces of ADHD” — a reminder that everyone’s experience is unique.

Today, we’re sharing our blog post from one of our peer supporters, who chose to share her story last year. She also offers practical tips and insights that may help others on a similar journey.

Read it here: www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/adhd-awareness-month-2024-adhd-and-breastfeeding/

Did you know? Our factsheet on ADHD and Breastfeeding covers:

- What ADHD is
- ADHD when you have a baby
- Treatment options – including medication

Find it here: www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/factsheet/adhd-and-breastfeeding/

If you have questions about ADHD and breastfeeding, you can message The Breastfeeding Network Drugs in Breastmilk Service , or email druginformation@breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk

Need support feeding your baby?
Call our National Breastfeeding Helpline UK on 0300 100 0212 – open 24/7 – or message them on social media.

[ID: Silhouette of a women in orange. ADHD Awareness October 2025. The many faces of ADHD. The Breastfeeding Network.]

22/10/2025

We had a great day last week at Larkfield Housing Association chatting about the benefits of breastfeeding and supporting local families 🤱🏽❤️

21/10/2025

A new Breastfeeding Network group is opening on Thursday 30th October at the Auchmountain Community Centre in Greenock!

Come along to chat to our trained The Breastfeeding Network (UK) volunteers and to meet other local mums. It is free to attend and refreshments will be provided.

Everyone is welcome and you can drop in at anytime between 1pm and 2.30pm - no need to book.
The group will run every week on a Thursday 1-2.30pm at Auchmountain Community Centre, 32 Burnhead Street, PA15 3LG

We have a new group opening on Thursday 30th October at the Auchmountain Community Centre in Greenock!
Come along to chat to our trained The Breastfeeding Network (UK) volunteers and to meet other local mums. It is free to attend and refreshments will be provided. Everyone is welcome and you can drop in at anytime between 1pm and 2.30pm - no need to book.
The group will run every week on a Thursday 1-2.30pm at Auchmountain Community Centre, 32 Burnhead Street, Paisley, PA15 3LG.
Inverclyde Health Visiting Team Breastfeeding Friendly Inverclyde NHSGGC Infant Feeding NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde