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Michelle Lindsay
Imperial College Healthcare Private Care - Maternity
What feeding and lactation support is available after birth?
Michelle Lindsay, Community midwife, explains feeding and lactation support after birth in this video, covering breastfeeding help, lactation consultants and support for whichever feeding method parents choose. This offers practical, patient-friendly guidance for those considering private care.
Transcript
When you leave the hospital you can safely feed your baby whichever feeding method you choose.
We support breastfeeding, we have lactation consultants and all of us as health professionals are able to support women to help to breastfeed their babies.
But if you do choose to bottle feed your baby we want to make sure that you do so safely so we make sure that we give you, prepare you for also for that if that is your choice.