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Share your infant's feeding journey and help us develop an Infant Feeding Strategy in South East London
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The Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) in south east London is working to implement a tailored infant feeding strategy to support women and birthing people to have the information and support they need when they need it. We aim to development a strategy including maternity, health visiting and any locally commissioned infant feeding services to ensure that women and birthing people receive the support they need at the right time, including out of hours.
We are working in partnership with our Maternity Voices and Neonatal Service Partnership Groups (MNVPs) to gather the views of women across our boroughs in South East London to understand their needs and experience of local services.
How people with lived experience can get involved
If you or your partner have given birth in south east London in the last year please tell us more about your experience and share with us feeding your child's journey. We are very keen to hear from families who had a baby with special needs, or was admitted to the neonatal unit or special care baby unit in any of our local maternity units.
Currently the King's College Denmark Hill Maternity National Voice Partnership (MNVP), an independent NHS group led by service users, are running a survey to gather feedback on experiences of local maternity care and use those to identify areas of improvement. If you or your partner have given birth at the King's College Denmark Hill in the last year (ie with babies born on or after 1 January 2022) please tell us more about your experience here by taking the survey below.
In July 2023 in partnership with Bexley Maternity Voices we held a session where we invited women, birthing people and their families to share their experience on infant feeding on their baby's/child first 1001 days of life.
Participants highlighted some of the following issues:
There are a lack of Information and support and women and birthing people felt they were provided with minimal information about available services and support systems. Hard copy materials available both physically and online were considered the most valuable information sources.
Instagram was favoured over council websites for seeking information on infant feeding topics and many families relied on word of mouth to stay informed about relevant matters in the community.
Women and birthing people emphasised the need for meaningful conversations and information about infant feeding during the antenatal period.
Most women and birthing people in this session had positive experiences with immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth and first breastfeeding sessions.
In the next few month we will continue having conversations and listen to women, birthing people who had babies in the last years and their families to understand about their experience of infant feeding. Your feedback will be helping us to develop the infant feeding strategy in south east London and shape the services to respond to your need.
The Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) in south east London is working to implement a tailored infant feeding strategy to support women and birthing people to have the information and support they need when they need it. We aim to development a strategy including maternity, health visiting and any locally commissioned infant feeding services to ensure that women and birthing people receive the support they need at the right time, including out of hours.
We are working in partnership with our Maternity Voices and Neonatal Service Partnership Groups (MNVPs) to gather the views of women across our boroughs in South East London to understand their needs and experience of local services.
How people with lived experience can get involved
If you or your partner have given birth in south east London in the last year please tell us more about your experience and share with us feeding your child's journey. We are very keen to hear from families who had a baby with special needs, or was admitted to the neonatal unit or special care baby unit in any of our local maternity units.
Currently the King's College Denmark Hill Maternity National Voice Partnership (MNVP), an independent NHS group led by service users, are running a survey to gather feedback on experiences of local maternity care and use those to identify areas of improvement. If you or your partner have given birth at the King's College Denmark Hill in the last year (ie with babies born on or after 1 January 2022) please tell us more about your experience here by taking the survey below.
In July 2023 in partnership with Bexley Maternity Voices we held a session where we invited women, birthing people and their families to share their experience on infant feeding on their baby's/child first 1001 days of life.
Participants highlighted some of the following issues:
There are a lack of Information and support and women and birthing people felt they were provided with minimal information about available services and support systems. Hard copy materials available both physically and online were considered the most valuable information sources.
Instagram was favoured over council websites for seeking information on infant feeding topics and many families relied on word of mouth to stay informed about relevant matters in the community.
Women and birthing people emphasised the need for meaningful conversations and information about infant feeding during the antenatal period.
Most women and birthing people in this session had positive experiences with immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth and first breastfeeding sessions.
In the next few month we will continue having conversations and listen to women, birthing people who had babies in the last years and their families to understand about their experience of infant feeding. Your feedback will be helping us to develop the infant feeding strategy in south east London and shape the services to respond to your need.
If you or your partner have given birth in south east London in the last year (ie with babies born on or after 1 January 2022) please tell us more about your experience and share with us your infant feeding journey.
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