Jenny Ingram was recently promoted to Professor of Maternal and Infant Health. Jenny’s research focusses on infant feeding, particularly breastfeeding to understand and improve breastfeeding practices; the impact of tongue-tie for infants and mothers; infant sleep practices; and enhancing family-centred care in neonatal units.

Her internationally recognised tools to improve assessment of breastfeeding difficulties associated with tongue-tie for health professional use in the care of mothers and infants include: The Bristol Breastfeeding Assessment Tool (BBAT), Bristol Tongue Assessment Tool (BTAT) and TABBY (tongue-tie and breastfed babies) tool. These tools are used in 20 countries and translated into 13 languages for clinical use.