Infant Feeding and Emotional Wellbeing Support Service

Concepts

• infant feeding and emotional wellbeing support service
• health and social work
• peterborough
• emotional wellbeing support service
• provision of infant feeding
• infant feeding
• infant mental health
• perinatal mental health support
• peer supporters
• support parents

Location

Peterborough and the Cambridgeshire Districts of Fenland and Huntingdonshire

Description

Infant Feeding and Emotional Wellbeing Support Service across Peterborough and The Cambridgeshire Districts of Huntingdonshire and Fenland.

Total Quantity or Scope

Provision of Infant Feeding and Emotional Wellbeing Support Service Infant Feeding: • Improving access to information, advice and support, including antenatally on the importance of early relationships and the benefits of breastfeeding for the health and wellbeing of the baby and mother. • Ensuring access to one-to-one practical help on maternity wards and in the community, from healthcare professionals and/or trained peer supporters, to support breastfeeding initiation, responsive feeding and relationship building during the immediate postnatal period. Provision of an infant feeding peer support service • Upskilling the workforce (community, voluntary, and health) to ensure a wide range of professionals/practitioners have the knowledge, skills and education to promote breastfeeding • Ensuring that drop-in infant feeding support sessions/groups are available in the community • Provision of equipment to loan for parents who need it (e.g. breast pumps), and staff sensitively support parents to use it. Perinatal and Infant Mental Health: • Maintain, develop or extend existing mild to moderate perinatal mental health provisions to reach more families. • Improved access to training that enables practitioners to have sensitive, inclusive conversations with parents and carers about wellbeing and challenges they might be experiencing, as early as possible • Improved universal parent–infant relationship services • Improved support available in a range of different settings • Improved awareness of the importance of parent–infant relationships for the workforce • Improved perinatal mental health support for fathers and co-parents • Developed and/or improved care and referral pathways to ensure support is provided when needed for babies and their families

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Other Information

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