Breastfeeding and coronavirus

[dearyme89]

Apologies if this has been done elsewhere (I'm sure it will have been) but I've searched and cannot find anything, but please feel free to link if it has.

I'm about to give birth, and feel really worried about breastfeeding. I was absolutely going to, but now worry that there hasn't been enough time to conclusively show how it can affect my baby should I get coronavirus.

I know that breast milk is great for their immunity but I worry that it won't be as good as it could be bad if it was to get passed to baby.

does anyone have any other information that I might have not been told/seen?

What breastfeeding support is there locally? It possible you could chat over the phone or FaceTime etc. Have you tried the breastfeeding network or lll?

The best thing would be to have someone who can help you physically position her but that will be difficult at the mo, I know my local lactational consultants are doing face to face with ppe but that's private practice.