Baby feeding support
You can get lots of help from your midwife and health visitor, you can also call or text Newham Baby Feeding Helpline on 07534 249611, or by emailing baby.feeding@newham.gov.uk.
Baby Feeding Cafes
Come along to one of our friendly drop ins, meet other mums and get support with breastfeeding, bottle feeding, expressing, starting solids and more.
Tuesdays 1.30 - 3.00pm on Zoom, book here.
Wednesdays 1 - 3.00pm at East Ham Library
Baby Buddy has film clips of skin to skin, first feeds, how breastfeeding works, expressing milk, feeding out and about and returning to work.
Global Health Media has lots of helpful films including breastfeeding in the first hours.
More information about breastfeeding and bottle feeding is available in languages including Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Urdu: Baby feeding in other languages
There is also lots of local support from our voluntary services as well as the national helplines – from 7am to midnight, seven days a week:
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National Voluntary Organisations |
Open |
Helpline |
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8am - 12pm |
0300 330 0700 |
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24 hours daily |
0845 120 2918 |
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9.30am - 9.30pm |
0300 100 0210 |
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9.30am - 10.30pm |
0300 330 5453 |
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9.30am - 9.30pm |
0300 100 0212 |
Read more about Breastfeeding in the UK - Baby Friendly Initiative (unicef.org.uk)