Infant Feeding workshop - Denmark Hill

Infant Feeding workshop - Denmark Hill

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

Select date and time

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:00 - 08:00 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Infant Feeding and Building a Happy Baby


Welcome to your interactive and evidence-based infant feeding workshop, brought to you by the Kings College Hospital Infant Feeding Specialists.

Come along and together we'll explore feeding options with unbiased information and links to reputable external resources that will enrich this exciting journey.

This workshop aims to cater for all, whilst also being responsive to your personal needs; These sessions will always cover:

  • Relationship building and bonding with your baby
  • The benefits of skin-to-skin contact
  • Learning to speak baby- recognising feeding cues
  • Constituents of milk
  • Positioning and Attachment
  • Paced bottle feeding
  • How to know when feeding is going well, and when it isn’t
  • Antenatal harvesting of colostrum
  • Support network within our local area

This workshop is designed to provide you with the information needed to make a fully informed choice about how you wish to feed your baby when they arrive. King's are dedicated to helping you achieve your feeding goals and you will be fully supported with your chosen method.

Registration

  • A King’s hospital ID is required upon registering
  • The meeting ID will be available via the Event page when it's time to log in

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 open discussion and breakout groups
  • Camera ON is encouraged to get the most out of the session but not required for attendance

Birth Partners are encouraged to join, and attendance is recommended from 30 weeks of pregnancy.

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

We look forward to meeting you virtually!

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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.