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September 4, 2024

Why breastfeed?

What happens in your baby’s first years has a big effect on how healthy they will be in the future. Mum’s milk gives your baby ...

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July 16, 2024

Paced bottle feeding

Paced feeding is way of giving your baby more control over feeds. Babies usually take small amounts of milk and stop for a rest, and then ...

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August 23, 2024

How to make up formula feeds

The Start for life website contains lots of useful information about how to prepare infant formula and sterilise feeding equipment to minimise the risk to ...

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August 23, 2024

Skin to skin

However you plan to feed your baby, skin to skin after birth is a really good way for you to start to get to know ...

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April 2, 2025

Expressing milk

Expressing milk is when you take milk from your breasts so you can feed it to your baby straight away, or store it in the ...

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June 30, 2025

Formula Feeding

You may choose to give your baby formula milk, want to combination feed or give your baby expressed breastmilk by bottle. Our service will support ...

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July 16, 2024

Best Beginnings

From Bump to Breastfeeding is a set of films following the journey of four mums (and we hear from other mums along the way) who decide ...

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September 4, 2024

The fourth trimester? ‘Fussy’ evenings with a newborn

If you’ve ever asked questions like the ones below during the rollercoaster weeks of new parenthood, you’re in good company! Most new parents, unless they ...

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October 1, 2024

Supporting Infant Feeding in Torbay

We know breastfeeding can be challenging sometimes and in Torbay there is support available through your maternity team, health visiting team or at the Family ...

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September 27, 2024

Start for life, breastfeeding friend

Breastfeeding Friend from Start4Life (or BFF) is an app that lets you get NHS-trusted advice at any time, day or night. You can get it ...

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