The Royal London postnatal care

Once you have returned home, our community midwifery team will continue to provide care to you and your family.

You will be contacted by us within 36 hours after you have been discharged. The schedule of care will be arranged with you, to suit your personal needs and preferences. This may involve home visits, as well as attending our family hubs in Tower Hamlets.

As part of this care, we will support you to get to know your baby and learn how to feed your baby. The preparation to return home will include:

• Baby feeding support and advice
• Full newborn examination prior to leaving hospital
• Newborn hearing screening prior to leaving hospital
• Follow up care will be organised by your local community midwife

Birth reflections clinic

We offer a birth reflection service run by our consultant midwives, patient experience midwife and obstetrician.

You can be referred to the service by a health care professional.

We are here to listen, support and provide clarity on your experience. This can be in person, telephone or virtually.

For further information please contact us by email

Feed Your Way Tower Hamlets brings together all of the baby feeding information and services in the borough, in one place to support you during your baby feeding journey.

It’s the home of the Baby Feeding Wellbeing Service a team of trained Baby Feeding Specialists who offer free feeding support to parents across the borough. They speak multiple languages including Bengali and Sylheti. No matter how you choose to feed your baby, the Baby Feeding and Wellbeing service is here to help you.  

What support is available? 

The Baby Feeding and Wellbeing Service offer a range of services and support. This includes: 

• Antenatal workshops: These include Getting Ready to Breastfeed and Colostrum Harvesting sessions which are available both online and in-person. These workshops prepare expectant parents for feeding their new babies. You can book onto those via Eventbrite.
• Hospital support: Baby Feeding Specialists are present on the postnatal ward at The Royal London Hospital to help new mothers feeding their babies.  
• One-to-one support: The Baby Feeding and Wellbeing Service aims to call every family in Tower Hamlets after the birth of their baby. They will introduce their service and offer support as needed.
• Drop-in support groups: Breastfeeding support sessions held at local Family Hubs provide a relaxed environment for parents to seek feeding advice and support. You do not have to book an appointment to attend these sessions.  See timetable on Feed Your Way Tower Hamlets.
• Library of useful resources: that can help answer any more questions you may have about baby feeding.

You can contact the team via the contact form. If you are a health professional and would like to refer a family, please use our referral form.

Out-of-hours baby feeding support 

• The Breastfeeding Network offer a 24/7 telephone helpline on 0300 100 0212 as well as a live chat service on their website.
• Bengali/Sylheti helpline: 0300 456 2421

Useful links:

• Feed Your Way Tower Hamlets, resource library and services
• What to expect?
• Is baby getting enough milk?
• Breastfeeding positioning and attachment
• Responsive feeding
• Close and loving relationships
• Bliss (Premature babies)
• Expressing
• Drugs in breastmilk factsheets
• Effective feeding
• Attaching your baby at the breast
• Breastfeeding information in other languages
• Guide to bottle feeding
• Guide to bottle feeding (Bengali)
• Formula milk information
• Twins and multiples
• Weaning older babies
• Breastfeeding during Ramadan
• Best Start Family Hubs

Tongue Tie

The Barts Health Tongue-tie service is based at the Royal London Hospital. Tongue-tie is a condition that may affect breast and or bottle-feeding babies. If you are having any feeding problems or concerns our Baby Feeding and Wellbeing Service  can provide support and if necessary, refer to the tongue-tie service for assessment and possible treatment depending on findings.