On Tuesday (14 June) the NHS Lanarkshire Breastfeeding Conference returned to welcome staff, partners, parents and grandparents to Dalziel Park to celebrate Scottish Breastfeeding Week.
Scottish Breastfeeding Week champions the work to support, protect and promote breastfeeding, and NHS Lanarkshire is delighted that the longer term breastfeeding rates across the region are improving.
AnneMarie Bruce, Infant Feeding Development Midwife at NHS Lanarkshire, said:
“It was wonderful to see so many people committed to ensuring a Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland at the event yesterday. Normalising breastfeeding, creating a supportive nurtured enabled community and promoting safe environments for breastfeeding outside the home throughout Lanarkshire and beyond is key to ensuring mothers and babies continue breastfeeding for as long as they want to.”
Eddie Docherty, Baby Friendly Guardian for NHS Lanarkshire, added:
“The dedication of the entire team at NHS Lanarkshire, and our partners in Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland locations in our communities, is having a real impact in creating a community where women feel enabled to breastfeed for as long as they want to.”
Anyone in Lanarkshire looking for breastfeeding support can contact the infant feeding team on 01698 366710. Further information is available at https://www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/services/infantfeeding/ or on the Facebook group NHS Lanarkshire Mums & Babies.
