Breastfeeding support groups are a great help for any mother giving her baby any breastmilk. You are welcome to attend any NHS Lothian group, to meet other Mothers and babies, there is no need to register you can just turn up.
The following associations have access to peer supporters who speak foreign languages. This means the peer supporters can phone a mum or video chat with a mum in their language.
The LinkTree website gives you details of all the breastfeeding groups across Lothian.
National Childbirth Trust
(08:00am until Midnight) Tel: 0300 330 0770
Have access to the following languages – Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Spanish Chinese Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and Korean.
Lothian.Peers@nct.org.uk
Breastfeeding Network
http://www.nationalbreastfeedinghelpline.org.uk/get-in-touch/
24 hours 7 days a week Tel: 0300 100 0212
Have access to the following languages – Welsh, Polish, Bengali and Sylheti.
La Leche League
(8am to 11pm) Tel: 0345 120 2918
Have access to the following languages – Afrikaans, Bemba, British sign language, Croatian, French, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and Welsh.
For written resources, LLL International at www.llli.org
The LLL website is available in a number of languages.
