
Rebecca Davenport
@beckydav
Infant feeding specialist midwife , IBCLC , NIFN member , tongue tie practitioner, small business owner, mum . Views and opinions are my own .
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http://www.feedingtogether.co.uk 25-01-2009 20:46:45
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🤩 poster by #sarajones on the results of our study using citizen science to explore home-based powdered infant #formula practices. Impt findings include common use of prep machines which typically don’t work as advertised! Find out more: firststepsnutrition.org/parents-carers Baby Friendly UK




Specialised formulas are over-used, over-priced & obesogenic. Labour government urged to strengthen regulations to protect infant health Article link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ce… @sibsonvicky Anthony Costello Dr Natalie Shenker MBE Rebecca Davenport HIFN GPIFN (UK) @DrChrisVT Dr. Cecília Tomori @_breastfeeding

Low-allergy formula prescriptions in England increased 3.8-fold from 2007 to 2023 without evidence for increased milk allergy prevalence @sibsonvicky Dr Natalie Shenker MBE Rebecca Davenport HIFN GPIFN (UK) @DrChrisVT Dr. Cecília Tomori @_breastfeeding BSACI World Allergy Organization EAACI AAAAI



Great to be able to have a proper detailed discussion about the problem with #formula marketing in the UK & why plain labelling might be a part of the solution #EndExploitativeMarketing Thx to Chris van Tulleken 🏳️🌈 raising the profile of this impt issue




Hot off the press. The prevalence of obesity in reception aged children has INCREASED from 9.2% to 9.6%, 2022/23 to 2023/24 - WAKE UP Govt please, & take action to enable babies to eat well from the start of life digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor… Obesity Health Alliance - Account Inactive Children's Food Campaign (no longer posting here) Wes Streeting

Clinical & Experimental Allergy UNICEF UK First Steps Nutrition Trust Florin-Dan Popescu Prof Amy Brown 🕷🤱🐘 Obesity Health Alliance - Account Inactive @actiononsugar Chris van Tulleken 🏳️🌈 IBFAN Dr Natalie Shenker MBE Rebecca Davenport HIFN GPIFN (UK) Dr. Cecília Tomori @_breastfeeding BSACI World Allergy Organization EAACI Aust Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy Phillip Baker And to limit #marketing, first and foremost! #EndExploitativeMarketing

We explain this more in section 2 of our 2023 report firststepsnutrition.org/upfs-marketed-… Phillip Baker Anne Jenkin Stuart Gillespie Rob Percival Chris van Tulleken 🏳️🌈

UK supermarket Tesco is being urged to drop an “unethical” pilot of an in-store infant feeding advice service in which midwives funded by the formula milk firm Danone are expected to wear branded uniforms and undergo training by the company Rebecca Coombes bmj.com/content/388/bm…

Delighted our support to expose the issues with this pilot have lead to its discontinuation. UK laws need upgrading inline with #BMSCode to protect the health of all infants, however they are fed #EndExploitativeMarketing BFLG-UK Andrew Gwynne MP Stephen Kinnock bmj.com/content/388/bm…


