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We know how important it is for patients and families to be able to see visitors. Please help us keep our patients and staff as safe as possible by checking the guidance below before you visiting. 

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We recognise the impact that a long stay in hospital can have on families and the importance of maintaining strong communication.  Our ward staff are keeping in touch with patients’ next of kin directly and our Voluntary Services team can help pass on personal messages from family and friends.

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Current visiting times

After suspending visiting earlier in the year, we are now able to offer limited visiting to some wards at the discretion of the nurse in-charge.”

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Messages for loved ones and keeping in touch

We recognise the impact that a long stay in hospital can have on families and the importance of maintaining strong communication.  Our ward staff are keeping in touch with patients’ next of kin directly and our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) can help pass on personal messages from family and friends.

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For more information, please visit our strategy webpage.

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News

How our teams helped mum Julia to breastfeed her children with tongue-tie

Date: 04 August 2021

Julia Langley breastfeeding her baby.

In April this year, Julia Langley gave birth to her third baby. All three of her children have had tongue ties which has impacted on her breastfeeding.

For World Breastfeeding Week, the 39-year-old from Lee-on-the-Solent wanted to thank our Infant Feeding Team at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust for their help.

Julia said: “When my daughter was born this year, she had a significant tongue tie which was divided on day five.

“She fed better after she had the procedure, but it still felt uncomfortable and she was also not gaining weight. I was still under the care of the midwives and so I received fantastic breastfeeding support from Nicki and Hayley.

“They helped draw up a feeding plan to give her some additional expressed milk on top of the breastfeeds.

“After a week of doing this, unfortunately, she had actually lost weight which was soul-destroying. A feeding assessment at that time picked up that she had an uncoordinated suck, probably due to her tongue tie re-attaching.”

Julia’s daughter was referred for another tongue division which was performed when she was five weeks old.

Julia said: “She's 15 weeks old now and I can finally say I am enjoying feeding her. I love the one to one time it gives me with her and there is nothing better than when she gives me a huge smile whilst feeding.

“My advice to anyone struggling with breastfeeding is to ask for help. I thought by baby three it would be "easy" but she's the one that I've needed the most support with.”

For more information about tongue-tie in babies, please visit www.nhs.uk/conditions/tongue-tie/

 

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