Colostrum Harvesting

Colostrum Harvesting

Specialist and evidence-based infant feeding advice from King's College Hospital maternity. Learn about your options for feeding your baby.

By Kings College Hospital Maternity

Select date and time

Wed, 1 May 2024 05:00 - 05:30 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Colostrum Harvesting is the expressing and collection of your first milk – colostrum – during pregnancy (from 36 weeks onwards) and helps get breastfeeding off to a good start. If your baby requires extra milk you can use your harvested colostrum instead of artificial milk.

There is evidence to suggest that colostrum harvesting can significantly improve breastfeeding rates through improving confidence in the skill of hand expressing (Brisbane and Giglia, 2015; Wszolek, 2015) and can enable a quicker establishment of your milk supply (Singh et al., 2009; Sunita et al., 2016; Wszolek, 2015).

Join this session to find out more about what colostrum harvesting is and how to start!

Birth partners are encouraged to join and attendance is recommended after 30 weeks. The course aims to get you off to the best start as a new family.

Registration

A King's hospital ID is required upon registering

Meeting link will be shared via the event page (MS Teams)

The Workshops

Participants will be asked to kindly mute for the main session

There will be opportunities to ask questions via chat and time for an open discussion

Camera ON is encouraged to get the most out of the session but not required for attendance

Please direct all enquiries to kch-tr.parenteducation@nhs.net

We look forward to meeting you virtually!

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Kings College Hospital Maternity

These online workshops are a free resources for service users booked with King's College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) and are hosted by midwives, doctors, specialists and maternity support workers. In your first trimester, join the 'Welcome to King's' workshop to hear more about our services. Later in your pregnancy, join the Labour and Birth workshops, Baby Basics and Infant Feeding. For those with more specialist needs, we have Induction of Labour, Birth After Caesarean (if you've had a previous CS), Twins and Multiples, Birth With Confidence and more. If you are looking for peer support consider Black and Minority Ethnic Group or our Spanish language workshop.

Visit the SE London Maternity page for the Pelvic Health classes, and Future Dads for FREE in-person workshops for fathers-to-be.

April 2024 - Our parent education service is under review and some sessions may not be available at this time.