This page was last updated: April 19th, 2022
All staff in our maternity, neonatal, and transitional care areas are trained to give you help, information and advice on feeding your baby, however you choose to feed.
The Infant Feeding Team is here to provide specialist support with feeding your baby in some of the more challenging circumstances.
We can also provide information and advice for other healthcare professionals who may be supporting you.
We’re extremely proud that Maternity services achieved full UNICEF Baby Friendly accreditation in 2012, and our neonatal team in 2019. Together, we’re now working towards the UNICEF Gold award. For more information on the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative, please click here.
We work with families both before (antenatally) and after (postnatally) birth and can support you with a wide variety of issues that are affecting feeding, including:
We adapt our support to fit the requirements of the individual family. We focus our support on babies under neonatal, transitional and maternity care, and also see babies for tongue tie assessment until they are up to12 weeks of age. There is a similar service for the Health Visiting department, who support staff management of babies once care has been handed from maternity to health visiting.
Feeding support services have remained present during the Covid-19 risk period. However, access to face-to-face support may be limited, and in its place, virtual and phone call support may be offered.
If you are a healthcare professional working with a family that needs specialist feeding support, please make your referral in the usual way.
If you are a feeding family in need of support, access the Infant Feeding Team through your healthcare providers including your Midwife, Health Visitor, GP, Peer Supporter.
For more information about feeding your baby during the coronavirus outbreak, please read the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative statement on infant feeding during the COVID-19 outbreak.
You can also find up-to-date information on Coronavirus and breastfeeding on the Breastfeeding Network website.
We work to cover as many days as possible form Monday – Saturday (not Sundays), but are unable to offer a 24-hour service. We try to respond to referrals within 72 hours.
We are based at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske. From here we provide support across the wider Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust provision.
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There are also independent groups running, so also explore these via your local community centers and social media groups for feeding support.