Rebecca Davenport (@beckydav) 's Twitter Profile
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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linkhttp://www.feedingtogether.co.uk calendar_today25-01-2009 20:46:45

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9 stages of skin to skin for preemie - it's ALL important and it's ALL an achievement. Rest matters. Movement matters. It can take weeks to develop, so keep doing it. Did you have skin to skin with your premature baby? After birth, or in the following weeks? #BFConf23

9 stages of skin to skin for preemie - it's ALL important and it's ALL an achievement. Rest matters. Movement matters. It can take weeks to develop, so keep doing it. Did you have skin to skin with your premature baby? After birth, or in the following weeks? #BFConf23
First Steps Nutrition Trust (@1stepsnutrition) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🤩 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

🤩 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 <a href="/babyfriendly/">Baby Friendly UK</a>
Food Standards Agency (@foodgov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wednesday 3 January 2024 - Reckitt recalls two infant formula powders because of the possible presence of Cronobacter sakazakii #FoodAlert bit.ly/4aG9RDL

Wednesday 3 January 2024 - Reckitt recalls two infant formula powders because of the possible presence of Cronobacter sakazakii #FoodAlert bit.ly/4aG9RDL
Clinical & Experimental Allergy (@clinexpallergy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Dr Vicky Sibson (@sibsonvicky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Great to be able to have a proper detailed discussion about the problem with #formula marketing in the UK &amp; why plain labelling might be a part of the solution

#EndExploitativeMarketing

Thx to <a href="/DoctorChrisVT/">Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈</a> raising the profile of this impt issue
First Steps Nutrition Trust (@1stepsnutrition) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good news! Our editorial has received over 1,000 views since publication! Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ce… #ViewsMilestone

First Steps Nutrition Trust (@1stepsnutrition) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

The BMJ (@bmj_latest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

First Steps Nutrition Trust (@1stepsnutrition) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 (@doctorchrisvt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Astounding story about @tesco breaking the World Health Organisation’s International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes. with an in-store infant feeding advice service funded by the formula milk firm Danone. 🧵

First Steps Nutrition Trust (@1stepsnutrition) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Honored to have been on the committee for this update which took a monumental 3 yrs! If your work supports eating well/feeding/nutrition among pregnant/breastfeeding women, women & families with babies & young children, in their homes, early years settings or where ever, DO READ!