Breastfeeding Awareness Week 2009: May 11th-17th

Lots of great events organised for Newcastle: more information from Natasha Moulding at SureStart Bridgewater (0191) 2747308. Have we missed an event listing? Let me know.

The breastfeeding drop-in sessions listed will all be celebrating: everyone welcome. Note: The regular breastfeeding support sessions not listed here should still be running - but they haven't told us about organising anything special that week.

Monday May 11th

• 10:30am-2:30pm Information stand at the ante natal/ scanning unit at the RVI
• 1-3pm Baby Café at Canning Street Primary School - Benwell NE4 8UE
  

Tuesday May 12th

• 10:30am-2:30pm Information stand at the ante natal/ scanning unit at the RVI

Wednesday May 13th

• 9am-1pm Breastfeeding awareness event and baby social Throckley Primary Care Centre

Thursday May 14th

• 10-11:30am Breastfeeding drop-in at the Lemington Resource Centre NE15 8DE
  
• 1-3pm Baby Café at St Martins Centre - Walker/Byker NE6 2RJ
  

Friday May 15th

• 11am-1pm the second annual Big Breastfeed - on the Millenium Bridge, with bunting. Bring your babies and nurse for Britain. More information here.

SureStart are asking people to help make the bunting for the Big Breastfeed: Anybody who is interested in creating a piece of the bunting is welcome to contribute to this great event. It should represent what breastfeeding means to you - eg. a time, a picture, a saying - anything personal to you - use your imagination. Each piece needs to be a triangle of fabric, with sides 30cm in length. You need to get it to Natasha ((0191) 2747308) by Friday 1st May.

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

First bit of useful information:

The Big Breastfeed 2009 is on May 15th at 11am, on the Millenium Bridge.
Bring your baby and nurse for Britain! Let's bridge Newcastle and Gateshead with milk.
More info from the SureStart Info Point on Adelaide Terrace 0191 273 9549.

More soon!