Feeding infants breast milk and infant formula is an essential part of the work many early childhood services do.

Move Well Eat Well, with the support of member services, has developed an infant feeding policy template and pictorial guide for bottle feeding infants.

The policy template can be used as a guide for developing a best-practice policy for feeding infants with breast milk and infant formula at your service.

The policy template includes:

• policy statement and goal
• references to relevant frameworks, policies, and guidelines including the MWEW requirements
• information and procedures for storage and labelling of breast milk or infant formula
• information and procedures for preparing and feeding with expressed breast milk or infant formula.

We've created pictorial procedures in response to feedback from members of the MWEW early childhood advisory group. We hope they will provide everyone with clear information for preparing expressed breast milk or infant formula.

• Breastmilk pictorial guide
• Infant formula pictorial guide

There are also fact sheets available to support breastmilk and infant formula preparation and storage in early childhood services:

• Breastmilk fact sheet
• Infant formula fact sheet