Whether you are pregnant and looking to find out more about feeding your baby, or if you are going home with your newborn and would like a little more support with feeding, you are on the right page.

Here are some useful tips and links…

Kingston Hospital’s Maternity Unit and Neonatal Unit have been accredited by UNICEF UK as ‘Baby Friendly’. Nic Kane (Chief Nurse) is the Baby Friendly Guardian (as part of the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative) at Kingston Hospital.

Infant feeding classes

We run weekly online infant feeding classes, which we recommend attending from 34 weeks into your pregnancy. 

Mondays

  • 1pm-2.30pm (appointment only), Clarendon Children’s Centre, TW15 2HZ, 01784 424 759
  • 2pm-3.30pm (appointment only), Alf King Children’s Centre, TW13 5AF, 020 85835601
  • Tuesdays 
  • 1pm-3pm (appointment only), United Reformed Church, TW2 5QA, www.facebook.com/ncttwickenham
  • 1pm-3pm (drop in, Kingston Borough only), Chessington Children’s Centre, KT9 1JE 020 82747709 – Street parking available

Wednesdays

  • 10am-12pm (appointment only), Lampton Children’s Centre, TW3 4DN, 020 85835602
  • 1pm-2.30pm (drop in - Kingston borough parents only), Kingston Town Children’s Centre
  • 2pm-4pm breastfeeding coffee group, The Dolphin, SM1 1PR, 020 86411689
  • 9.30am-11am - last Wednesday of the month via Zoom (online), Café La Leche, Wimbledon, SW19 4JZ, Email to book: laleche.Bernie@gmail.com; https://lllwimbledon.weebly.com/ 
  • 10am-12pm (drop in), Hersham Baptist church, Arch Road, KT12 4QR, free Street parking. Advice line 01883340922. 

Thursdays 

  • 9.30am-11am – Infant feeding peer support group (Kingston Borough parents only) United Reform Church Malden Road, New Malden, KT3 6DR
  • 10am-11.30am –appointment only, The Hub, Beavers Children’s Centre, TW4 7NW, 02085835602
  •  9.30am-3.30pm –appointment only, Clinic Stormont HC, SW11 5EG, 07766800365 – Street parking – pay at meter
  •  10am-11.30am –appointment only, South Isleworth Children’s Centre, TW7 7AP, 02085835762 – Free parking
  • 10am-1pm, Baby Cafe, St Michael’s Church, SouthfieldsSW18 5TT, nctbfdropin@gmail.com
  • 9.30am-11am, United Reform Church Malden Road, New Malden KT3 6DR (Kingston Borough Parents Only)

Fridays 

  • 9.30am-12pm – drop in (Kingston Borough mothers only)Tolworth Children’s Centre, KT6 7SA, 02082747709 – Free street parking
  • 1pm-3pm – Kingston Hospital catchment < 6 weeks only, Cornerstone Church, KT2 6LF, 07385949049

Anatomy or the breast

Antenatal hand expressing

Responsive feeding

Skin to skin

Positioning and attachment 

Safe sleeping

Bottle feeding