UPCOMING EVENTS

• Guest webinar: Supporting breastfeeding in the wider community
  Friday 3rd May 2024
  13:00-14:30
  Public health scientist, Georgia Ladbury, shares ideas for creating a breastfeeding friendly environment in your local community, including:
  – working with public venues through breastfeeding welcome schemes
  – providing exemplars for local employers to support mothers returning to work
  

• Guest webinar: Infant feeding in emergencies
  Thursday 9th May 2024
  13:30 – 15:00
  Helen Gray gives an expert view on how to plan and provide support for infant feeding in emergencies in the UK
  

PREVIOUS EVENTS

• Guest webinar: Supporting families with introducing solid foods
  Recording available
  Thursday 21 March 2024
  13:30 – 15:00
  Vicky Sibson and Rachel Childs from First Steps Nutrition will talk about supporting the introduction of solid foods to a baby’s diet and ensuring families have the best advice to do so

• Guest webinar: Support for families who are bottle feeding
  Recording available
  Tuesday 5 March 2024
  13:30 – 15:00
  Continuing in the series of guest webinars hosted by Better Breastfeeding to support the development of local breastfeeding and infant feeding strategies, we hear from infant feeding specialist Shel Banks, who has considerable experience in supporting families who are bottle feeding. Shel will talk us through the following questions:
  – Why should a local infant feeding strategy refer to bottle feeding?
  – How can we ensure that parents who are bottle feeding get the support they need?
  – What actions should we expect to see in a local strategy?
  – How can each part of the Integrated Care System make sure that it’s offering the support needed?

• Guest webinar: Breastfeeding in paediatric settings
  Recording available
  Wednesday 21 February 2024
  Dr Lyndsey Hookway gives insights into how we can support medically complex children to continue breastfeeding.
  

• Guest webinar: Designing a virtual breastfeeding support scheme
  Recording available
  Wednesday 17 January 2024
  In the first of our guest webinar series, we heard from Hampshire Breastfeeding Counselling, who in 2020 rose to the challenge of setting up a virtual breastfeeding support offer when their usual face-to-face groups were unable to meet due to the Covid restrictions. They discovered that while virtual support cannot always replace that face-to-face experience, it has proven a valuable addition to the breastfeeding counsellor’s toolbox.
  
  The government’s new Start for Life programme recommends developing a virtual breastfeeding support element as part of a Local Authority’s breastfeeding support offer. As the first 75 LAs on the programme design their local infant feeding strategies, now is a timely opportunity to learn how to set up a successful scheme that makes the most of the technology now available.
  
  
• Workshop series and support package:
  Developing a local Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding Strategy
  Are you developing a breastfeeding or infant feeding strategy for your Local Authority or LMNS? Join Better Breastfeeding’s action learning programme today to benefit from
  – expert advice from our team
  – peer support from others in a similar role
  – practical tools to save you time and help you gather all the information you need for an effective local strategy
  
  Beginning February 2023, Better Breastfeeding are running a series of 6 interactive workshops aimed at LMNS and LA Project Leads that will be delivered via Action Learning Sets. Working alongside colleagues in your local area, or with those who are in a similar setting, you will have the opportunity to problem-solve together while also receiving online support from the Better Breastfeeding team to develop your Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding Strategy. Support package includes all 6 workshops, online support and networking, access to all of Better Breastfeeding’s tools, and free access to our upcoming specialist guest webinars in 2023. Further details…
• Information session for commissioners and project leads – Friday 10 February 2023 1.30pm
• Webinar: Developing a coproduced breastfeeding and infant feeding strategy 9 September 2022
• Webinar: Accessing public funding for breastfeeding support 14 June 2022
• Webinar: Accessing public funding for breastfeeding support 25 May 2022