Your baby is now officially an embryo and is about the size of a poppy seed.
Please visit www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/4-weeks-pregnant/ for more information.
HNY Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding Strategy 2023-2027
Developed in partnership with infant feeding, maternity, health visiting, public health colleagues from across Humber and North Yorkshire (HNY) in early 2023, our Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding Strategy sets out the direction to support agencies and the public, to protect, promote, support, and normalise breastfeeding.
While the strategy promotes the choice of breastfeeding, it would like all parents to feel supported in how they feed their baby, whether that be with breast milk, formula or a combination of both.
Our vision for HNY is to create a culture where breastfeeding is seen as the norm and recognised as a key component to good long term health and reducing health inequalities. If women decide not to breastfeed, they will be supported to bottle feed in a safe way.
The strategy includes chapters on the:
- value of breastfeeding
- bottle feeding safely
- outcomes and aims
- objectives to protect, promote, normalise and continue breastfeeding; and support breastfeeding and safe bottle feeding
- breastfeeding and infant feeding support services.
Over time this strategy will be supported by local action plans which will analyse our breastfeeding trends across HNY, identify variation and inequalities between communities, and develop actions to address them with a focus on the most deprived areas.
