Top tips for supporting breastfeeding (static)

Series : Better Health - Start for Life

Published : 2023
Page Length : 1
Format : Social graphic
Supplier : N/A
Publisher : Public Health England

The Better Health Start for Life Breastfeeding campaign which assist mums and new parents through their first weeks of breastfeeding and beyond. Breastfeeding provides all the nutrition a baby needs for the first six months and also helps build a strong emotional bond between a mum and her baby. Breast milk also helps boost a baby’s ability to fight illness and infection by passing on the mother’s immune defences. Babies who are not breastfed are more likely to get diarrhoea and respiratory infections. It is not uncommon for mums to experience challenges with breastfeeding and these problems can often be unanticipated, meaning that when they occur mums can tend to give up and instead switch to formula feeding.