Breastfeeding Peer Support in Lancashire

Lancashire County Council has commissioned Families and Babies to offer breastfeeding support to women across the LCC footprint commencing on the 1st April 2018 initially for three years. We are pleased to be providing this service for Breastfeeding Promotion and Peer Support in Lancashire.

FAB has provided a breastfeeding peer support service within Central Lancashire for over ten years working within Lancashire Teaching Hospital and Ormskirk District General Hospital and across the community. We have established a valued service with mothers; their families and partner health professionals in central Lancashire and we hope to replicate this with our expansion across the rest of the area

A member of our team contacts all breastfeeding mothers referred to us soon after they come home from hospital and together you will decide what support you want from us.

Every mother’s experiences are different and some need more support than others, we can visit you at home or usually offer telephone support as a minimum to check how you and your baby are doing.

Our support is in addition to the care and support you will receive from your midwife and health visitors, but we are all working together to ensure you get the right amount of support for you and your baby.

Useful links:

• Lancashire & South Cumbria Better Births https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk/betterbirths
• Virgin care https://lancsyoungpeoplefamilyservice.co.uk 0300 2470040

We have put together a timetable of the current digital group support options below and we hope that we have made these accessible to all.

Digital Support Timetable

Our infant feeding helpline remains the primary contact point for all communications and is available daily 9.30am-2.30pm and then 9.30pm until midnight 01254 772929 (voicemail available outside of these hours, picked up the next working day).

You can also email us on admin@familiesandbabies.org.uk for general enquiries or fab.lancsreferrals@nhs.net for NHS referrals into peer support.

Please continue to encourage all mums to call us and register, whether that is antenatally or postnatally.  Mums do not need to be registered with us for any of the video support groups listed but it enables us to support them longer term and in a much more personalised way, including one to one video calls, phone calls, text and emails – call us on 01254 772929 or email us or fab.lancsreferrals@nhs.net we also take referrals from any of our partner services with mums consent.

The following groups will re-open once the COVID19 pandemic settles;

• Blackburn with Darwen
• Central Lancashire
• East Lancashire
• North Lancashire
• For North Lancashire and South Cumbria https://babymaze.co.uk/new-parent/

Please see below links for all the breastfeeding friendly places in Lancashire:

• Blackburn with Darwen
• Burnley
• Chorley
• Hyndburn
• Pendle
• Preston
• Ribble Valley
• Rossendale
• South Ribble
• West Lancashire 
• North Lancashire
• Fylde and Wyre 

If you are a Lancashire business and would like to be included within our breastfeeding friendly places list then please sign up through our Survey Monkey link here: 

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VSTF3BQ