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Babies and Breastfeeding Information Encouragement Support

 

Is held weekly on Wednesday mornings at the Lanterns Children’s Centre Winchester. It was started on May 16 2007, by NCT Winchester and is facilitated by Jane Moffett, Jennie Gavin, Jenny Gauntlett and Ruth Webster, all N.C.T Breastfeeding Counsellors. It is open in 2015 thanks to amazing generosity from users of the service, members of our local community, Lanterns Children's Centre but most of all the dedicated fundraising team of 2014, and all those of you who attended the April fun day. We are now confident that we can support mums in this area well into 2015. Our 2015 fundraising family fun day is at Lanterns Children's Centre on Sunday April 26th, 11am-2.30pm.

B.A.B.I.E.S has provided a safe place for mothers to come for support, to ask questions, share their difficulties and meet other mothers with similar concerns.  

-      "Attending BABIES a helped build my confidence in breastfeeding and without the support, I'm not sure how long I would have persevered. They were incredibly non-judgemental and provided respite when it just seemed nothing was going right." 

      Mum user June 2014

 

     "The BABIES sessions were a great way to get used to breastfeeding out and about and also fun socially"

      Mum user June 2014

 

 -    More groups like this are vital if babies are to receive the benefits of breastmilk, BABIES helped me see I was not alone and that mothers can have problems breastfeeding. S.P 2012

 

   -  felt very supported in changing to formula, which is ‘a thing in winchester you get judged for’. ‘i went from being scared of breastfeeding in public, ducking in and out of toilets to hiding the fact i was bottle feeding’. J.P 2012

 

BABIES costs approximately £5,800 annually to run and is available 51 weeks of the year to any breastfeeding or pregnant woman in Winchester and the surrounding area. Since May 2007 we have received funding from the NCT Winchester branch, An Awards For all Grant and donations from Winchester Round Table and Lanterns Children's Centre as well as many very generous individual donations, matched funding and fundraising from a wonderfully committed and hardworking team.

Fundays in  2009, 2010 ,2011,2012 and 2014 were a great success, the next fundraising funday will be held at Lanterns on Sunday 26 April 2015.Please email bfcounsellors@winchester-nct.org.uk to get involved and put the date in your diary.

You can also show your support by donating any amount, large or small, to ensure this vital service continues in 2015. Thank-you.