Welcome to LLLGB! We provide free, friendly support for anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding, or providing human milk for their baby.
We are also delighted to help anyone who works with breastfeeding families.
- Healthcare Professionals’ Newsletter
- LLLGB Healthcare Professional Membership
- Beginning Breastfeeding Online Antenatal Courses
- Online breastfeeding Information from LLLGB – trusted by parents and professionals
- LLLGB Breastfeeding Matters Podcast
- LLLGB Shop
- LLLGB Panel of Professional Advisors
- LLL – supporting families around the world
- Infant Feeding in Emergencies
- The WHO Code
Healthcare Professionals’ Newsletter
Sign up for our free Health Professionals’ newsletter to make sure you know when we add or update our articles, leaflets, news and other resources including offers from LLLGB Shop. You can sign up here if you’d like to receive it – you’re very welcome to share the link with colleagues: http://bit.ly/LLLGBhcp.
LLLGB Healthcare Professional Membership
Our Professional members receive our regular publication Breastfeeding Matters (choose between paper and electronic format) and a £10 voucher redeemable at LLLGB shop. To sign up for membership or find out more visit our Membership page.
Beginning Breastfeeding Online Antenatal Courses
You’re welcome to signpost pregnant patients/clients to LLLGB’s free four-hour online antenatal course for expectant parents and their partners or supporters. Courses are led by our accredited breastfeeding counsellors. The course covers:
- How your body and your baby are preparing to breastfeed
- How milk production works
- Colostrum harvesting and hand expression
- Signs of effective feeding and getting enough milk
- The importance of skin-to-skin
- Comfortable breastfeeding (positions and latch)
- Restful feeding and safe sleep
- Overcoming common challenges
- How to support a breastfeeding parent
Read more about our Antenatal Beginning Breastfeeding Courses
Online breastfeeding Information from LLLGB – trusted by parents and professionals
Our website is packed with information about common (and less common) breastfeeding issues and stories from real mothers.
See our full list of Breastfeeding Information
Selected articles:
LLLGB Breastfeeding Matters Podcast
Our podcast provides easy-to-digest information about a wide range of breastfeeding topics.
Including episodes on:
- Why Breastfeeding Support Matters
- Our Children and the Food We Eat with Chris Van Tulleken
- In conversation with Zarina Ayyub about early days and months of motherhood across cultures
- Breastfeeding and Neurodiversity with Emily Lunny
- Discussing allergies and breastfeeding with Dr Robert Boyle
- How Babies Sleep – Prof Helen Ball discusses her new book
See further information here.
LLLGB Shop
LLLGB Shop stocks many titles recommended for breastfeeding supporters and health professionals, including some titles not available anywhere else in the UK. All profits support our volunteer work.
You can find our full selection by clicking here.
One of a range of posters available as free downloads from the LLLGB Shop. All our posters support Baby Friendly standards.
They also stock a wide range of information sheets and leaflets for different breastfeeding situations and issues.
LLLGB Panel of Professional Advisors
The LLLGB Panel of Professional Advisors (PPA) is a body of experts in breastfeeding and birth research and practice. They advise and support our Professional Liaison Department with queries that are medically complex or unusual.
Our current advisors are:
Professor Helen Ball – Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, creator of the BASIS – Baby Sleep Info Source
Dr Vicky Thomas – Consultant Paediatrician at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne
Dr Claire McCarthy – Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist, Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Dr Robert Boyle – Consultant Paediatric Allergist at Imperial College
Laura Kearney – Consultant Pharmacist at UKDILAS
Gabriella Leatherdale – Tiba – Dental Surgeon
Stacey Zimmels – Speech and Language Therapist
LLL – supporting families around the world
La Leche League operates in over 80 countries worldwide, enabling mothers to access information and help in the language of their choice, and attend virtual meetings in multiple time zones.
Find international LLL support
Infant Feeding in Emergencies
In times of emergencies, displacement, and extreme stress, breastfeeding can continue and can save lives.
La Leche League International’s resource bank on infant feeding in emergencies is available in multiple languages.
The WHO Code
LLLGB supports the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. You can read it in full here.