Breastfeeding and postnatal care
Clinical Midwifery Consultant, Jeni Stevens talks about the Breastfeeding and postnatal care [PDF] booklet and breastfeeding advice, including tips, demonstrations and what to expect.
Nepean Blue Mountains LHD Breastfeeding booklet
Breastfeeding support at Nepean Blue Mountains LHD
Before your baby arrives you can access support through:
- your midwife
- Nepean hospital antenatal clinic
- Blue Mountains hospital maternity
- Lithgow hospital maternity
- a clinical midwifery consultant in infant feeding
After your baby arrives you can access support through:
- your midwife
- your child and family health nurse child and family health feeding clinics, you can book an appointment through your child and family health nurse
- a clinical midwifery consultant in infant feeding
- Nepean hospital postnatal
- Blue Mountains hospital maternity
- Lithgow hospital maternity
Contact your midwife or local hospital to arrange an appointment with a clinic or consultant.
It is important to book into a breastfeeding or antenatal class early in pregnancy as they are very popular and fill fast. Your support person is also welcome to attend.
If you are not in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD area, please contact your child and family health nurse to find out where your relevant feeding clinic is located.
Support is also available through the Australian Breastfeeding Association (helpline 1800 686 268).
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Breastfeeding smartphone app
The Nepean Blue Mountains LHD 'Breastfeeding How-To' app is a tool for learning more about breastfeeding. If you are pregnant or your partner is pregnant, you can enter your due date to get relevant alerts, now and once your baby is born based on age and development.
The app includes short videos on a great range of topics such as:
- Why breastfeed
- Preparing to breastfeed
- Skin-to-skin contact
- Tips on how to breastfeed
- How often do babies breastfeed
- Is my baby getting enough
- What can my partner do
- Breastfeeding multiples
- Breastfeeding at work
- Breastfeeding in public
- Challenges
- Expressing
- Introducing family solids
The app also contains links to resources from organisations such as:
- Australian Breastfeeding Association
- Lactation Consultants of Australia and New Zealand
- MotherSafe
- Raising Children
- Global Health Media Breastfeeding and Small Baby Videos
- COPE (Support for Parenting Emotional Challenges)
- PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia)
- SKAI (immunisation information)
- Lifeblood Milk (Donating breast milk)
The app is available from the Google Play store or Apple app store or search for ’Breastfeeding How-To’ in your mobile app store.
Infant feeding resources
- NBMP 058 - Breastfeeding and postnatal care (PDF 1.64MB)
- NBMP 308 - Cup feeding (PDF 431.78KB)
- NBMP 307 - Finger feeding (PDF 359.48KB)
- NBMP 306 - Finger supply line feeding (PDF 454.02KB)
- NBMP 109 - Breastfeeding after a scan (PDF 464.2KB)
- NBMP 309 - Supplemental nursing system at breast (PDF 516.9KB)
- NBMP 253 - Using nipple shields (PDF 461.51KB)