Infant Feeding Workshop - PRUH

Infant Feeding Workshop - PRUH

Specialist and evidence-based infant feeding advice from PRUH maternity. Learn about your options for feeding your baby.

By Kings College Hospital Maternity

Select date and time

Thursday, May 2 · 9 - 11am 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 Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) 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

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

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

  • Your King's hospital number is required upon registering
  • Virtual meeting ID will be available via the online event page

The Workshops

  • Participants will be asked to kindly mute in large groups
  • There will be opportunities to ask questions and time for 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.