April 2021 - COVID-19 update
Clinics
Our Breastfeeding Clinics are open by appointment on Mondays and Thursdays.
Your Midwife, Health Visitor or GP can refer you to a Breastfeeding Clinic, but you can also refer yourself - please call us so we can discuss your needs.
Tel: 01865 572950
There is also help available from Oxfordshire Breastfeeding Support.
Resources
Infant Feeding Team video playlist on YouTube
Maternity Services Playlist on YouTube
Seven videos about feeding your baby.
- Why skin to skin contact is important
- How to get positioning and attachment right
- How to hand express
- The four reliable signs that your baby is getting enough milk
- Expressing and how to use a breast pump
- Why responsivenes and relationship building is important
- Responsive bottle feeding and alternative feeding methods
Oxfordshire MVP Facebook Live sessions
Oxfordshire Maternity Voices Partnership on YouTube
Weekly sessions about feeding and the early days. Watch the Infant Feeding Team live at 2.30pm every Thursday
Advice from the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative
Infant feeding during the COVID-19 outbreak
COVID-19 vaccines - pregnancy and breastfeeding
COVID-19 vaccines, pregnancy and breastfeeding - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Statement on COVID-19 vaccines while breastfeeding - Breastfeeding Network
Information sessions
Early days with your baby
Seven days a week, Level 5, John Radcliffe Hospital Women's Centre
Obtaining a breast pump
Children's Centres, Community Midwifery Teams, breastfeeding support services and charities often have breast pumps for loan, and will give you further details on hire and purchasing.
Where to get help
If you need help learning to breastfeed your baby, please first ask your midwife, health visitor or GP.
You may also wish to contact:
Find us and contact us
Hannah Torrance and Alex Mulford
Joint Infant Feeding Leads
Sarah Marklew-Brown
Infant Feeding Team Midwife
Naomi Morton
Infant Feeding Team Midwife
Elisa Mauri
Infant Feeding Team Midwife
Infant Feeding Team: 01865 572950
Bleep 1151
Email: infantfeeding.team@ouh.nhs.uk
John Radcliffe Breastfeeding Clinic
Parent Education Room
Level 1, Women's Centre
John Radcliffe Hospital
Headington
Oxford OX3 9DU
How to find the John Radcliffe Hospital
From the outpatient entrance to the Women's Centre, enter through two sets of glass sliding doors then turn immediately right. Ahead of you will be a set of locked double doors with an entry phone on the left.
Press the buzzer for the Parent Education Room, and you will either be invited in or asked to take a seat for a moment. The Breastfeeding Clinic is on the left a short distance down the corridor. There are signs on the wall above the double doors and suspended from the ceiling in the corridor.
There is also a baby changing / feeding room on Level 1: go in through the outpatient entrance, walk ahead until you reach the League of Friends tea bar and the entrance is ahead of you in the back wall.
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