Dads and breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is great for mum and baby but with everyone focusing on the baby and the partner doing all the feeding, it can make the dad feel a little pushed out.

Useful tips to help dads to bond with their baby

Cuddles
- Give your partner and baby plenty of kisses and hugs whilst they feed.
Play, play, play
- Playing with your baby is an important way to bond.
Change nappies
- It's not just about cleaning bums. Nappy changes involve talking to your baby, being gentle and taking care of their needs.
Bath time is your time
- If possible, make bathing a dad-thing in the same way that feeding is a mum-thing.
Do the burping
- Help with the burping.

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Help us keep everyone safe this winter

We’re asking everyone to please help protect our patients, visitors and employees during the winter months.

If you’re feeling unwell, please don’t visit our hospitals - even for appointments or to see loved ones, unless it’s in exceptional circumstances such as end-of-life care or maternity.

Colds, flu, Covid and norovirus (sickness and diarrhoea) can spread easily and cause serious illness in vulnerable patients.

Please only come in once you’ve been free of symptoms for at least 48 hours.

When you do visit:

Wash your hands with soap and water when you arrive and before you leave the ward (hand sanitiser alone is not enough).
Please don’t sit on patients’ beds, or eat and drink at the bedside.
And if you’re asked to wear a mask, please do so.

Thank you for helping us keep everyone safe this winter.