Hope those dietitians watching #TheDoctorWhoGaveUpDrugs on CMPA still wedded to the training and resources (and funds) that industry provide reflect on how the profession should take control and rid itself of #COI this #DietitiansWeek

Welcome to Twitter Connect @ Exeter Neonatal Unit😃 Will be good to hear about your continued great work to push the barriers for babies and their families in neonatal services. #partners in care!

#WiganARM18 Jo Dagustun Kindness is not in the LMS strategies and policies.And yet kindness is the key element women and families desire. Is the maternity system embarrassed to admit this needs to be an evaluated policy point? Kathryn Gutteridge @sandra_sjp Mary Newburn @SagefemmeSB

北京外 围/南京外 围/天津外 围/西安外 围/昆明外 围/上海外围/广州外围/深圳外围/无锡外围 Mary Newburn ✨JennyTheM©✨💙ENFP-T #BirthLeadership Jude Jones Nicolette Peel @SagefemmeSB Tracey Cooper MBE PhD FRCM ✨ Sally ✨ RM, BSc(hons),MSc, PMA, @flowepower66 ✨Deirdre Munro✨

@Francesca @babyfriendly karen read💙 3000 new midwives is great news but hope mechanisms are in place to support their education and placements

How fantastic to see Sir Jeremy Hunt MP giving such a clear and unequivocal endorsement of the power not only of continuity of care but of midwifery itself. Good well funded midwifery save lives. 🙌 Lesley Page CBE x.com/CCHQPress/stat…

More will be on their @babyfriendly journey - 91% of maternity units & 89% of health visiting services in England are accredited, or working towards accreditation. London Boroughs need to continue to fund - trained breastfeeding support makes a real difference to London families. x.com/Kath_Dalmeny/s…

Wise words x.com/brenebrown/sta…

Great fun training with Janet Dalzell in Northern Ireland with staff from neonatal units. @babyfriendly

Excellent thoughts on what compassion means on the neonatal unit @babyfriendly neonatal standards training Janet Dalzell

.@babyfriendly new.who.int/news-room/deta… Breastfeeding saves lives. Its benefits help keep babies healthy in their first days and last will into adulthood," says UNICEF CEO Infant Feeding APPG The Breastfeeding Network UK ABM Royal College of Midwives 💙 MIRU_UoDHealthSci Alison Thewliss @SagefemmeSB Carmel Anne

According to the National Maternity Review/ ‘Better Births’, 90% of women say they stopped breastfeeding before they wanted to. They shared a feeling services were ‘inadequately resourced’ and ‘felt confused’. There is much to be done. 90%. 90%. 90%. Infant Feeding APPG

'There is a window of opportunity for setting up the immune system in the first few weeks of life.' Which is why mammalian milks, including human, evolved as they did. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09…

And the winner is!! Another fun BFI training day on achieving sustaining @babyfriendly

This has slipped under the radar: Seems pureeing breaks down cell walls, turning 'intrinsic' sugars into 'free' sugars (cambridge.org/core/journals/…). So pureed foods are less satisfying and more damaging to teeth than #BLW-style pieces of food, and encourage a liking for sweet foods.

The Outstanding Achievement Award, sponsored by Liaison, goes to Baby Friendly Team Leader, Sue Henry! #starawards18

Breastfeeding, initiated within the first hour of birth, exclusive for six months, continued up to two years is powerful for promoting child survival and wellbeing Mary Renfrew First Steps Nutrition Trust @SagefemmeSB Infant Feeding APPG PHE Children @DHChildHealth unicef.org/publications/i…

#WHA71 "When women breastfeed, their contribution to the reduction of Green House Gasses and water conservation is substantial and an unacknowledged contribution that women make to reduce the impacts of climate change." @ibfangc Dr. Arun Gupta MD FIAP (Ped) Patti Rundall