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FeedingNHS Breastfeeding site, with advice, tips and how-tos. Also featuring our own From Bump to Breastfeeding DVD.

Jane’s Breastfeeding Resources has been running since 1996 and is an extensive breastfeeding resource.

The NHS Choices site is also geared towards breastfeeding, this time with an emphasis on the medical side of things. It also includes an excellent timeline so you know what to expect from birth to five.

The Breastfeeding Network offers free, confidential telephone information on breastfeeding and one-to-one local support.

National Breastfeeding Helpline is staffed by trained volunteer mothers from the Breastfeeding Network and the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers. Lines are open 9.30am-9.30pm every day of the year. The Association of Breastfeeding Mothers also has lines open until 10.30pm with voluntary mother-to-mother support, counselling and information.

Health Talk Online offers insight into personal experiences of breastfeeding via interviews with 49 women and 2 men, plus backup resources and help.

Lactation Consultants of Great Britain are professionally qualified to promote breastfeeding in a variety of NHS and community settings as infant feeding specialists or breastfeeding co-ordinators, and in midwifery, health visiting, paediatrics and other healthcare roles. They also support breastfeeding families as voluntary breastfeeding counsellors/supporters, and in private practice.

NCT Breastfeeding helpline has trained breastfeeding counsellors who can offer individual advice and support.

La Leche League runs a helpline offering advice and information on breastfeeding, plus local group meetings.

Welsh Assembly Government offers breastfeeding information in English and Welsh.

Food Standards Agency guide to feeding babies and young children.

Premature and sick babies and multiple birthsPOPPY (Parents of Premature babies Project – Your needs) is a three-year research project to identify effective interventions for communication, information and support for parents of a premature baby.

Tamba offers a national, confidential, support, listening and information service for all parents of twins, triplets and more, and the professionals involved in their care. The service operates from 10am to 1pm and from 7pm to 10pm, every day, all year round.

Multiple Birth Foundation offers a vital resource to professionals and families, aiming to improve the care and support of multiple birth families through the education of all relevant professionals.

Bliss is a national charity dedicated to working for special care babies and their families. Their helpline provides information and support from a member of their parent support team, and parent-to-parent support with another parent who has been through the experience of having a sick or premature baby.

Child health inequalitiesRecommended academic papers on reducing child health inequalities:

Barnardos – What Works in Reducing Inequalities in Child Health? (2000)

International Centre for Health and Society – Social determinants of health inequalities (Marmot, 2005)

Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010 (Marmot Review)

See also the Marmot Review website.

Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion – Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years (Waldfogel 2004)

Inequality in the early cognitive development of British children in the 1970 Cohort (Feinstein 2000)

National Statistics – The Health of Children and Young People (1990-2001)

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