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On camera - Baby Café part on
NHS vision 9th June 2008
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Northampton
Baby Café were very honoured to be the project chosen to represent
Northamptonshire in a short film by New Edge TV shown at the launch of the East Midlands
Strategic Health Authority vision for the 'Our NHS' review 2008. The
projects selected were examples of projects already delivering the best in
healthcare across the region.
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Community Practitioner Article 30th
May 2008
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| In May, The Baby Café was the focus of an article by Danny Ratnaike in Community
Practitioner magazine, the journal of the UK Community Practitioners'
& Health Visitors' Association. In the article co-founder of The Baby
Café, Julie Williams, describes how, 'All too often breastfeeding is
associated only with certain sections of the community, but we find that
mums from every walk of life feel comfortable in a Baby Café.'
Community Practitioner, May 2008: Vol 81 number 5
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National Breastfeeding Awareness
Week 2008 24th May 2008
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During National
Breastfeeding Awareness Week the Earlswood
and Horley
Baby Cafés welcomed many breastfeeding mothers and their supporters to
join in the celebrations at the cafés.
At the Horley Baby Café several of the Mum2Mum Breastfeeding supporters
were presented with The Surrey County Council Awards for volunteering by
Sue Jones, Head teacher at Meath Green Infant School. One new mum,
Katherine, said "I love coming to the Baby Café as it's a great
place to have a coffee and chat with the other mums, while knowing that I
can get support with breastfeeding if I need it."
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In a week when it
emerged that one in four top restaurants would ask a mother to leave if
she started breastfeeding, Baby Café mums set off around Great
Yarmouth, campaigning for cafes, restaurants and relevant shops to
display stickers letting mums know they are welcome to breastfeed.
Balloons were handed out to children along the way.
They particularly asked that mums be welcomed to sit in the main eating
areas not tucked away in a room or perched on the edge of a toilet seat!
The response was phenomenally positive with more than 25 premises in the
town displaying the specially made cartoon stickers and being entered on a
list which will be made available to mums on discharge from hospital. The
Great Yarmouth Mercury ran an article as did Radio Broadland and Beach
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes presents awards 19th
April 2008
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| At the recent Cheshire County Council's 'Celebrating Achievement with
Children, Young People and Families' Awards Ceremony Margaret Redman,
midwife, and Helen Jones, Bosom Buddy peer supporter, collected the
'Working and Achieving with Partners' award in recognition for setting up
the Neston Baby Café in partnership with Wirral University Hospital,
Western Cheshire PCT, Bosom Buddies, Volunteers and Neston Children's
Centre
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Billericay wins NHS Working
Together Awards 18th
April 2008
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On the 13th March
2008 the Billericay Baby Café were invited to attend the South West Essex
NHS Primary Care Trust Staff Awards for 2008 at the Holiday Inn in
Basildon. Mandy Myers, a School Nurse within the Trust had decided to
nominate The Billericay Baby Café and Lucy Peacock (Health Visitor
and Lead Facilitator for the Cafe) for the NHS Working Together Award.
Seen here are Ruth and Charissa, mum volunteer supporters with Mandy at
the awards ceremony. Billericay Baby Café have also been awarded a grant
to enable them to train more Peer Supporters later in the year.
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TV's Anne praises Headington Baby Café 9th
March 2008
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| Television and former Radio Oxford presenter Anne Diamond has lent her
support to Headington Baby Café in Oxford - and said she would have used
one when breastfeeding her children. At the second anniversary of
the Baby Café on Wednesday, she congratulated mothers, volunteers and
health workers for making the once-a-week drop-in centre such a
success. And before she cut a special cake to mark the occasion, it
was revealed that Ł16,000 had been secured from Oxfordshire County
Council to ensure the future of the city's baby café bus.
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200th mum climbs aboard Baby Café Bus 17th
November 2007
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Breastfeeding counsellors are celebrating the success of their mobile
baby cafe after the 200th mother and baby stepped inside.
Lucy of East Oxford, visited the 18-seater bus - which is the UK's first -
when it made a stop in nearby Cowley Road, to get advice about nursing her
three-week-old son William. Read more |
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New and pregnant mums celebrated the official launch
of a Baby Café in Felixstowe Library on 3
August 2007. Felixstowe is the first public library in the UK to have a Baby
Café. So far, it is attended by up to 20 women at a time. Suffolk Primary Care
Trust Children's Services health visiting cluster team and Suffolk County
Council worked together to provide the Baby Café.
Councillor Graham Newman said: "Felixstowe Library is the first in
the UK to have a Baby Café in a library. I think it is a great credit to
the community in Felixstowe that this new initiative has been embraced so
enthusiastically. I'm also proud that Suffolk County Council is leading
the way in offering new services of real benefit to local people - even
the very young - at such an important time in their lives, turning the
library into a true centre of community activity. The Council and the
local NHS are offering a great service here to new mums and their babies -
why not come and see what's available?"
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Over 40 mothers and
their babies attended the first birthday celebrations of Singapore's
Baby Café on Monday 21st May, some of the babies even celebrating their
own first birthday! The room buzzed with conversation with babies of all
ages attending (12 day old Max being the youngest).
In the past year over 700 mothers have passed through the Baby Café, a
fantastic response to this new initiative in Singapore. Mothers have been
able to gain expert advice as well as making new friends. For some mothers
it has been the difference between continuing to breast feed and giving
up. This is what the baby cafe aims provide with lactation consultants
giving practical advice and mothers getting peer support from new friends.
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Serving up the best in That's Life 20th
July 2007
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| That's Life magazine ran a special feature on Baby Café drop-ins
in the Mum's World section of its 26th July issue. Featuring several
mothers who attend Bluecoat Children's
Centre Baby Café in Torrington, Devon, the article describes how the
Baby Cafe was set up earlier this year and continues to support
breastfeeding mums. The mums look forward to the Monday afternoon sessions
where they can meet one another, get support for breastfeeding and make
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Over 40 families
took part in a colourful event three day at gift store Heart & Soul
in Lindfield, West Sussex which raised over Ł300 for The Baby Café
Charitable Trust. Heart & Soul, www.heartandsoulgifts.co.uk, is
a retail store that specialises in beautiful gifts for babies and young
children with a stunning collection of christening gifts and designer
clothing for children up to two years.
During the event the store held a baby photo competition in conjunction
with Picsnapper Photography. Music Bus, Kindermusik
and Happy Little Hands also hosted a number of free taster sessions
covering music and baby signing. A baby massage class was provided by
Sussex massage therapist Jenny Bleakley and Brighton artist Rachel Pearce
organised a stunning display of baby portraits.
The Baby Café Charitable Trust is very grateful to the staff and
customers of Heart and Soul for their support during the ‘A Star
is Born’ event. Although we run a large network of Baby Café drop-ins
for breastfeeding mothers we are actually a very small charity in terms of
resources. An event like this is extremely valuable to us in terms of
raising both funds and our profile and it was a pleasure to work with such
a caring and community-minded local business. Thanks to the generosity of
all involved we will be able to offer our high-quality brand of support to
many more mothers.
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| The new Oxford Baby Café Bus
officially went on the road in May 2007. A launch party was held with
entertainment and a barbecue. The first of its kind, the Baby Café Bus
has been specially adapted and will travel each week to several
different Oxford venues to offer mobile breastfeeding support to
mothers.
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Buckingham Baby Café join in Race for Life
20th May 2007
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| On Sunday 20th May members of Buckingham Baby Café took part in
'Race for Life' at Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. The
run (which they walked !) was 5km and the aim was to raise money for
Cancer Research and to raise their local profile.
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The Baby Café
Charitable Trust has announced that its first USA Baby Café is due to be
officially launched in early April. The Melrose
Wakefield Hospital Baby Café will be open twice a week to pregnant
and breastfeeding mums and their supporters. |
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| Williton Baby Café drop-in centre
has won an award in a competition run by the Somerset Coast Primary Care
Trust. It was named as the winner in the staff achievement category in
recognition of the innovative way it offers help and support to
breastfeeding mums. As well as a commemorative certificate the café was
also given Ł40 to spend on new books. |
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Beeston Going Strong, Two Years
on 18th October 2006
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The Baby Café in Beeston,
South Leeds held a party to celebrate two years of supporting mothers.
Three Bosom Buddies had the honour of cutting the cake. They have been
involved with the group for well over two years, having trained as peer
supporters in May 2004.
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Baby
Café Bus wins in People's Millions 15th
November 2006
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A Big cheer has gone up in Headington
today as the Roundabout Centre’s Baby Café Bus project celebrates its
win in the Big Lottery Fund and ITV’s People’s Millions contest.
ITV Central South viewers voted for the project
to win funding from Lottery cash, after a nail biting head to head,
screened on Tuesday’s Central Tonight evening news.
The Baby Café Bus project won the hearts and minds of viewers across
the region, with a pitch to spend the winning cash on transforming a bus
into a mobile Baby Café, providing a drop-in facility for mothers and
pregnant women wanting to find out more about breast-feeding. The bus will
be parked in different locations each week and offer specialist advice
from trained staff and volunteers.
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Chair of Trustees,
Helen Bilton, awarded the first of the Baby Café Charitable Trust
Volunteer Awards 2006 to volunteer Jilly Salisbury at Caldy
Valley Baby Café drop-in in Chester on 17th August. Jilly is a
long-standing volunteer at the drop-in and attends every week giving
invaluable support to the mums and also to the staff. Further awards will
be given out at the conference at the end of September so if you know of a
Baby Café volunteer who deserves a special acknowledgment of their work
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MP supports Great Yarmouth Baby
Café 4th July 2006
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| Tony Wright, MP for Great Yarmouth, launched the new Baby Café in Great
Yarmouth at the Priory on May 16th 2006 demonstrating wholehearted
government support for the project. He cut an enormous organic chocolate
cake which was devoured swiftly. Then he cut a purple ribbon to officially
open the café. There was a full house with standing room only with lots
of breastfeeding mums.
He also presented copies of the book, Bestfeeding, to the
Baby
Café's seven newly qualified Baby Buddy peer supporters.
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Nottinghamshire's first Baby
Café 8th June 2006
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Sure Start Midwife,
Sharon Christiansen thanked everyone involved in setting up Carlton
Baby Café. The Baby Café was opened on 17th May by Diane Tinklin
from the Nottinghamshire Children's Centre team who have been supportive
in the development of family centred services across the area. There
was also lots of support from parents and peer supporters who attended the
launch party.
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Wymondham
opens its doors to BBC3 TV 25th
May 2006
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| Wymondham
Baby Café was featured on the BBC3 programme 'My Breasts and I'
presented by ex-Atomic Kitten singer Jenny Frost. Jenny dropped by
to talk with Health Visitor Margaret Holtz about breastfeeding in
public.
Click here to see a
clip from the programme
(You will need Real
Player to view this 4MB file) |
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The launch last week
of Mundesley
Baby Cafe near Cromer, Norfolk was fantastic and well attended with
yellow and purple balloons guiding everyone to the venue. An entertainer
kept toddlers happy with clapping songs and balloon 'Fireman Sam' hats and
balloon dogs!
The Breastfeeding Supporters wore purple body sashes and yellow logo-ed
name badges. Sandwiches with healthy fillings and snacks were provided
along with a large mountain of fruit and the cake was duly cut. Mums
breast fed their babies in a happy positive environment and a good time was had by all! |
Norwich
babies get taste of café society 20th
May 2006
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| A midwife is hoping to bring
breastfeeding back in fashion in Bowthorpe,
Norwich after setting up the city's first Baby Café drop-in which
opened on 18th May 2006.
Mum-of-two community midwife Debbie Ticehurst set up the café because
she wanted to encourage more mums to breastfeed and to lessen any stigma
they felt was attached to it. The project has been supported and funded by
the Bowthorpe and West Earlham SureStart scheme.
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Wymondham Baby Café in BBC news feature 19th
May 2006
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Mum, Cherise Jones
talked to the BBC about her experiences of trying to breastfeed baby
Emilie who was finding it impossible to latch on to the breast following a
traumatic birth experience and was having to be fed expressed milk in a
bottle. She then heard about the Wymondham
Baby Café drop-in run by health visitor Margaret Holtz.
Cherise says, "I met the health visitor and she reintroduced me to
breastfeeding. It was the first time that anybody had said to me that I
could still breastfeed.I got so much support it was fantastic."
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more about Cherise's experience.
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"Café where
baby knows breast" in The Times 13th
May 2006
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| As part of National Breastfeeding
Awareness week the Body and Soul section of The Times featured an article
written by Suzi Godson about the Coram
Baby Café drop-in in King's Cross, London, which she had visited with
her own baby.
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here to read the article
Click here
to read follow-up letters published the following week
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Jack Newman opens first Singapore
Baby Café 24th April 2006
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On Monday 24th April
Singapore opened its doors to the Baby Café concept. The
Singapore Baby Café was opened
by renowned paediatrician Jack Newman MD, consultant to
UNICEF and author of "The Ultimate Breast Feeding Book of Answers'.
He was in Singapore and Hong Kong to lecture to mothers and health
professionals on the myths and concepts in breast feeding,
pointing out the risks to babies from bottle feeding. In his address he
was delighted to support the café concept stating that getting the right
information is important in making breastfeeding a success for
mothers. Following the Baby Café ethos means that mothers can be sure of
receiving expert up -to-date advice that is evidence based.
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in the Mother and Child Centre, Tanglin Mall in the heart of the city of
Singapore. The centre is currently owned by Lactation Consultant and British
trained midwife Uma Thambidurai. Her dream is to spread the Baby
Café concept through out Asia. Health visitor Diane Cronly who set up cafe
Number in 11 in Didcot, Oxfordshire
brought the concept to Singapore and
was delighted with the launch.
The centre was filled with mothers, babies and the staff of mother and
child including three trained health visitors, two midwives and two
lactation consultants. The cafe will operate each Monday from 2pm - 4pm
except bank holidays with two staff, one of whom will be a lactation
consultant.
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When Edlington
Baby Café held their launch party Gervase Phinn, author, kindly
attended and declared the Baby Café officially open. He delighted the
guests by sharing his own amusing poetry and donating
books to the mothers and the staff of The Children's Centre.
The cakes were provided by Jane Hughes of The Townhouse Tea Rooms in
Bawtry and were enjoyed by all. The Baileys cheesecake was the favourite!
Those in attendance were mainly local mums and babies, and also
representatives from Doncaster PCTs, Surestart, Surestart Plus, the
Primary Health Care team, and staff from The Children's Centre.
Local radio Trax FM provided extensive coverage of the event and
The Doncaster Free Press sent a photographer.
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Mums,
dads, babies and staff marked the first birthday of Chapeltown Baby Café
in Leeds with a party and celebration cake. A photographer and journalist
from the Yorkshire Evening Post also came along.
See more
pictures on the Chapeltown page.
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