Early days
- Early days
- Welcome to the Transitional Care Ward
- Kangaroo Care
- Being with your baby – Becoming a mum
- Postnatal Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Third and fourth degree tear
- 3rd or 4th Degree Tear (RCOG)
- Contraceptive choices after you’ve had your baby
- Baby security on the Maternity Unit
- Information about Vitamin K
- Fragmin/Dalteparin administration leaflet
Infant feeding
- Off to the best start (A guide to help you start breastfeeding)
- Mothers breastfeeding checklist
- Expressing and storing breastmilk
- Breast engorgement / Mastitis
- Bottlefeeding leaflet (How to prepare infant formula and sterilise bottles)
- Safely save money on formula milk advice
- Why are we asking you to make one bottle at a time?
- National Breastfeeding Helpline
Health conditions and vaccinations for your baby
Registering your baby’s birth
Safer sleep and caring for your baby at night
Car seat safety
Support for partners
Useful links
- After your baby is born
- Baby Buddy app
- Baby Umbrella Charity – free breastfeeding and early parenting support (in-person or via Zoom)
- Beside You – Breastfeeding support in Kent and Medway
- Breastfeeding vitamins
- Bump, Birth & Beyond – Kent & Medway
- Coping with crying (ICON)
- First Steps Nutrition Trust
- Health visitor drop-in clinics
- Kent Community Health
- Pelvic floor exercises
- Screening tests for you and your baby
- Start 4 Life – Information about pregnancy, birth and parenthood
- Unicef UK – Infant Feeding Foreign Language Resources