Welcome/Who we are:
WMPHO
host this site to bring you up-to-date information about infant feeding.
The Department of Health West Midlands is supporting best practice developments
around the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in the West Midlands Region. It also
works to raise awareness of the risks of and best practice relating to safe use of artificial feeding
methods.
In your area you will have a local breastfeeding/infant feeding lead
worker/coordinator. They will attend the West Midlands Regional Infant feeding Co-ordinator's Network.
If you do not know your local co-ordinator and want to raise an issue from your locality, please
get in touch.
For details of who the Network reports to, how it is made up and other groups and
networks that it communicates with, please see the
West Midlands Regional Organisational
Structure: Infant Feeding.
Your West Midlands Regional Infant Feeding Co-ordinator:
Sarah Rock
Telford & Wrekin PCT
sarah.rock@telfordpct.nhs.uk
Breastfeeding Support in Wolverhampton
Health professionals, new mothers and mothers-to be in Wolverhampton, who want to find up to date details of local breastfeeding drop-in-groups, can access this information via a new leaflet.
The ‘Breastfeeding Support in Wolverhampton’ leaflet holds information on where pregnant women, new mums and families can find local and national sources of breastfeeding support and information.
It contains full contact information and details of each breastfeeding support group and is available from the city’s Children’s Centre’s, health centres, www.centrestart.co.uk and from New Cross Hospital’s antenatal and postnatal midwives.
It is also available on the Breastfeeding Peer Support page on the The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust website, which can be found via the Volunteering page.
For more information on the leaflet contact Diana West, Breastfeeding Peer Support Coordinator for The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust via email address diana.west@nhs.net.