It's calendar season once again!

SureStart West Riverside has pledged funding for the third annual breastfeeding calendar for the area. Previous years have been massively successful in raising awareness and celebrating the mums and babies who've contributed. We hope that this year's will be the best one yet!

If you'd like to contribute images to this year's calendar, send them to me before the end of August. Once all the images are in, we will have a voting day at the Baby Cafe Canning Street in early September, to choose the 12 favourite images for the calendar.

We want to show that life doesn't stop just because you're breastfeeding - and we need your images of breastfeeding in interesting or unusual places. On holiday? Out and about? Nursing twins? Upside down? Get the photos coming in! Email me at newcastleBF@gmail.com

Newcastle Breastfeeding Resource is moving!

Escaping the unreliable and generally rubbish tiscali, we are setting up a cosy pad here in blogspot. At the moment there's not much, but soon all the salient features of old-style NBR will be safely installed on this site, and we will never look back. In the meantime, you can find the old site at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/shemilt/breastfeeding_newcastle

Breastfeeding Events in Newcastle

National Breastfeeding Week has been moved!
No longer in May, a last-minute decision has been taken nationally to have the event from June 20th to 27th, 2010. If you are organising any events for the week, let me know and I'll post details here.

The Big Breastfeed 2009

Newcastle's second annual Big Breastfeed was a huge success!

On May 15th (during National Breastfeeding Awareness Week), loads of mums and babies braved the rain to head to the Millenium Bridge for the event. Fortunately Natasha Moulding had made arrangements to move everything (but the bridge) into the Baltic, and everybody was able to dry off and pose for the cameras on the viewing platform on level 5.

The same photographer as last year was covering the event, and there was also a reporter from the Chronicle interviewing and taking pictures. If you head to the Chronicle online, you can buy prints of their photos (type "Big Breastfeed" into the search bar).



Here's an image from the Big Breastfeed 2008, at the Monument. We're making history here, ladies.

More information on the Big Breastfeed is available from Sure Start on (0191) 2739549.


Breastfeeding doesn't stop just because of torrential downpours!

Howay the lasses....