Breastfeeding is widely known to be beneficial to a baby’s health as the mother’s milk contains antibodies that offer lifelong protection from disease. Some mothers have chosen to breastfeed their baby, but have to be separated from their child when it is born, for a variety of social care reasons.
The team at Blackburn Birth Centre want to purchase a grade double breast pump to help the birth mother to express milk, which can then be fed to the baby, giving it all the nutritional benefits this provides.
