Tameside Integrated Infant Feeding Team

13/11/2025

Are you a Health Care Professional supporting families with multiples?👶🏽👶🏽👶🏽

💡Did you know you can find loads of helpful articles and resources at
www.breastfeedingtwinsandtriplets.co.uk

The website is full of evidence based, accessible articles on breastfeeding twins and triplets.

Send this to someone who would love to read more!

12/11/2025

Do you want to learn more about starting solids with your baby?

Our team runs a free, monthly session online via Teams. Click the link to sign up and join from the comfort of your own home!

www.ticketsource.co.uk/tameside-intergrated-infant-feeding-team

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11/11/2025

Another great post from the Drugs In Breastmilk Service

✨ Decongestants & Breastfeeding ✨
It’s that time of year - sniffles and colds are everywhere!

A simple and effective way to ease congestion is inhaling steam - try this frequently before turning to medication.

Although tablets, powders, and lemon drinks won’t affect your baby, but they can reduce your milk supply. So they should be avoided while breastfeeding.

Decongestant sprays are just as effective and have no effect on supply, as they only work locally in the nasal passages.

Stay comfy, breathe easy, and keep your milk flowing! 💜
Read our full factsheet, here:
https://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/.../decongestants/

The BfN DiBM team of pharmacist volunteers are available 8:30am-8:30pm every day of the year to answer your questions about medication and breastfeeding.

www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/drugs-in-breastmilk/

10/11/2025

Concerns about breastfeeding in public (such as embarrassment and negative public attitudes) have been identified as one of the main barriers to breastfeeding. 🤱🏻🤱

By signing up to the Breastfeeding Friendly Scheme, businesses and organisations can help show that they have made a commitment to welcome and support breastfeeding families in their premises.

In Tameside we have our own Breastfeeding Welcome scheme that is supported by Tameside Council and administrated by our wonderful Home-Start HOST breastfeeding peer support team.

If you are a local business who would like to be part of this scheme, or a breastfeeding parent who would like to nominate a business for their warm welcome to you, please contact Home-Start, by following the link below:
https://home-starthost.org.uk/breastfeeding-and-baby-welcome/

09/11/2025

09/11/2025

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08/11/2025

Some of the great feedback our service has received in September!

If you have been seen by the Infant Feeding Team, why not drop us some feedback.

Your feedback about your experience and quality of care is important to us. It takes just a few minutes to complete and we will use your feedback to better understand what is important to you, what we are doing well and where can make improvements.

https://portal.tgh.nhs.uk/FFT/FormSubmission?q=uy5XJLo7PB4qCi606SL6/uIV58FnjXuqdKCu7ofb3NCzxbDW+4kbXYmH7GrxVqoHlWEm549gvJ3emsCaXuB77y0s26Cs1cF+

08/11/2025

Need breastfeeding support?
The National Breastfeeding Helpline is open 24 hours a day every single day of the year, offering non-judgemental, evidence based, friendly breastfeeding support and information to anyone in the UK who needs it.
📞You can call the helpline on 0300 100 0212.
➡ Visit https://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/ for more information.

07/11/2025

You are invited to join midwives & chaplains for Tameside Hospital maternity unit's annual baby memorial service.

The service is to remember babies so dearly loved & so briefly known.

It's taking place on Sunday 16th November at 2pm at the Albion United Reformed Church, on Stamford Street East in Ashton.

Refreshments will be available following the service.

03/11/2025

Bookings are open for 'Womb to World' antenatal sessions stating on Wednesday 19th November 2025, 6-8pm.

This free course includes information around feeding choices as well as evidence-based information from our local specialist services on child-parent mental health, labour & birth, pelvic health care & practical advice on caring for your new born. It runs over 4 consecutive weeks.

If you are at least 24 weeks pregnant,🤰🏻 live in Tameside, or know someone who is, let them know about this FREE course being held at Bump & Beyond nursery in the grounds of Ryecroft Hall, in Audenshaw.

You can book your tickets using the following link:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/tameside-intergrated-infant-feeding-team

Places are limited, so don't delay!⏱️

31/10/2025

🎃👻Happy Halloween from all the Integrated Infant Feeding Team!🧙🏻🧟‍♂️

30/10/2025

🍂October has been ADHD Awareness Month.🍂

This year’s theme is “The Many Faces of ADHD” — a reminder that everyone’s experience is unique.

The BfN Drugs in Breastmilk Service share this blog post from one of their peer supporters, who chose to share her story last year. She offers practical tips and insights that may help others on a similar journey.

Read it here: http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/adhd-awareness.../

💡Did you know the BfN factsheet on ADHD and Breastfeeding covers:
- What ADHD is
- ADHD when you have a baby
- Treatment options – including medication

Find it here:
http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/.../adhd-and.../

If you have questions about ADHD and breastfeeding, you can message The Breastfeeding Network Drugs in Breastmilk Service, or email druginformation@breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk