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NHS Portsmouth, Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust, Solent Healthcare and Portsmouth City Council

1 min read Early Years
What did they do? Health visitors and midwives staged a series of events across Portsmouth to give parents more advice about breastfeeding and its benefits as part of National Breastfeeding Awareness Week.

What did it achieve? The events promoted the slogan "Portsmouth supports breastfeeding". Dawn Saunders, a public health consultant, says the slogan is important to help mums identify places where they can breastfeed and increase the social acceptance of breastfeeding.

"We want to make sure every mum in Portsmouth has the support she needs to breastfeed her baby for the first six months, and the information she needs to make an informed decision," she said.

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