Liz Farrant IBCLC

IBCLC and RM with a passion for supporting breastfeeding and helping parents to achieve their feeding goals. Views are my own

[Thames Valley Police @ThamesVP]

From our workshops that test out the two tone tune to officers deploying to jobs, this little fella has been sat patiently observing the noise to recreate it! 🐦‍⬛

[Office for Health Improvement and Disparities @OHID]

The infant feeding survey will ask mothers with new babies:

➡️ how they feed their babies
➡️ where they get advice on feeding
➡️ questions on their pregnancy and lifestyle

You will get a letter if you are invited to take part.

Find out more or opt out: https://t.co/jqNKArgb5U

[First Steps Nutrition Trust @1stepsnutrition]

This 👇 The news this week has been all about slating regulations designed to protect babies. The legislators are the baddies. What about the conglomerates manufacturing the formula & selling it at increasingly eye watering prices, in the middle of a cost of living crisis?

[First Steps Nutrition Trust @1stepsnutrition]

Not 1 single news article I have read covering latest news about infant #formula #marketing has been factually correct. All have misreported the purposes of legal marketing restrictions. These are outlined in the section ‘rationale underpinning U.K. law’ https://t.co/80edttQjTO

[Karleen Gribble @DrKarleenG]

Pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and caring for a newborn baby change women's brains. Matrescence is an important and complex biological, psychological and social process. We seek to diminish or ignore it at our peril. https://t.co/z3nRrPxVv7

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

‘I really don’t feel the aftercare is there for mums’

The Conservative MP @theodoraclarke is launching a new cross-party birth trauma group in Parliament.

She joined @BBCNuala to share her labour story and call for better aftercare for all mums. Click to listen in full 🎧 ⬇️

[Ernestine Ndzi @ndzitina]

Thanks to all that attended the breastfeeding documentary launch today and the start of campaign for change. You can sign and share the petition. The webinar series starts next week with @makesmilk
And @DrAimeeGrant. Sign up! https://t.co/TM2Pr5dTzM https://t.co/K62eHszLof

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

They make exams and tests
harder
to make sure
that fewer children do well.
When the results come out
the papers will say that
standards are going down,
which is teachers' fault
and children are becoming stupid.
In an election year
the govt can say
they'll make it all better.

[Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 @DoctorChrisVT]

Nestlé’s sponsorship of an obesity congress is the same as a tobacco company sponsoring a congress on smoking related disease; their business depends on increasing sales of food associated with obesity. They cannot be part of the solution… 🧵
https://t.co/qVmMGhhxHT

[Emma Pickett @makesmilk]

Ringfence 10% of UK health spending for preventive measures, report urges

Um…breastfeeding support and early years nutrition?

Anyone? Anyone? https://t.co/TWpzxtWzuA

[First Steps Nutrition Trust @1stepsnutrition]

Oh the irony: @BJMidwifery still taking #formula company money to advertise to HCPs

[Dr Daniel Munblit @DrMunblit]

Our study on infant formula is finally published in the BMJ, showing weak scientific evidence for health claims. Infant formula industry must provide accurate information for the vulnerable infants who rely on their products!
https://t.co/adqIod6gpj

[BFLG-UK @BflgUk]

Launch of @TheLancet Breastfeeding Series: Authors call for breastfeeding to be society’s collective responsibility & for #breastfeeding to be effectively protected, promoted & supported. #ProtectBreastfeeding #EndExploitativeMarketing

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

Formula feeding does not offer the same health and development benefits as breastfeeding. And yet, in 2020, the formula milk industry generated US$55 billion in sales.

Authors interrogate the structural barriers to breastfeeding ⤵️

https://t.co/BB3vthQ3MW #ProtectBreastfeeding

[Emma Pickett @makesmilk]

Breastfeeding “ignored by mainstream economic accounting”.
The treatment of breastfeeding as free/cost less and a “lifestyle choice” is “completely perverse”. It means governments do not recognise value of breastfeeding. #ProtectBreastfeeding

[Emma Pickett @makesmilk]

David McCoy: 6 companies control 60% of formula sales. Profit margins of 20%. CMF companies are “large and powerful.” Understanding the economic power of the industry is crucial. It “permits a powerful and sophisticated political strategy.” #ProtectBreastfeeding

[Emma Pickett @makesmilk]

Nigel Rollins: Mothers are self-reporting insufficient milk supply based on misinterpretation of normal newborn behaviour. Confidence is undermined. This lack of confidence is being taken advantage of. #ProtectBreastfeeding

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Car parking charges:

• NHS Nurse: £1,300 per year.
• MP: £0.00 per year.

Ban NHS car parking charges.

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

500,000 workers take strike action today. They are taking on corporate and government greed and power.

RT if you back every single individual who is on the picket lines today.

#EnoughIsEnough