Purbeck Breastfeeding Support Groups - Wareham Bovington Swanage

Other People's Breast Milk: Other People's Breast Milk - On Demand

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2272518492788099&id=1345273515512606

Posting this again after the conversation we were having at group this morning. Some really interesting views x

channel4.com Kate Garraway investigates cross-feeding, breast milk donation and wet-nursing

Families and Babies - FAB Dorset

For anyone needing support before the weekend....

Breastfeeding Groups in Dorset running tomorrow (FRIDAY 19th OCTOBER)
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Blandford. 10.30am – 12.00pm. Children’s Centre, Black Lane, DT11 8SW

Bridport: 1.00pm – 2.30pm. Bridport Children’s Centre, Skilling Hill Road, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5LA

Weymouth: 10.00am – 12.00pm. Mulberry Children’s Centre, 2 Newstead Rd, Weymouth DT4 8JE

Swanage: 9.30am – 11.30am. Children’s Centre, Chapel Lane off High Street, Swanage, BH19 2PW

Canford Heath: 10.00am – 11.30am. Canford Heath Children’s Centre, Culliford Crescent, Poole, BH17 9DW

Kinson and West Howe: 10.30am – 12.00pm. Kinson and West Howe Children’s Centre, Moore Avenue, West Howe, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH11 8AU

Boscombe: 12.00pm – 1.30pm. Boscombe Children’s Centre, 22 Ashley Close, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 4PE

Hamworthy and Turlin Moor children's centre, 1pm- 2pm. Turlin Road, BH16 5AH

Breastfeeding Dorset-DHC

Good morning Mums and their partners we would love to recieve some more tips and pictures or video selfies of partners supporting breastfeeding and ways partners can bond with their baby as we would like to do a feature especially for partners in the near future. Your baby may not have arrived yet and you might like to share your thouoghts about breastfeeding, whatever we would love to receive them, feel free to message us 😃

Families and Babies - FAB Dorset

We have two mums signed up for training in Purbeck 🤩

Lovely morning at Swanage group chatting to a mum who has signed up to do her Peer Support training 🤗

Another lovely morning at Bovington with a new mummy and daddy coming to group. I really enjoyed covering today and loved being able to offer support to this family 😍

Well so glad I finally made it to the Wareham group today after running so late. A really good chance for a cuppa and a chat with the mums about the peer support training.
Plus the local church is signing up to the Welcome Breastfeeding Scheme thanks to Rachel Cocksedge.
Debs 😍

Other People's Breast Milk: Other People's Breast Milk - On Demand

Looking for the Dispatches breastfeeding programme tonight and I came across this....

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/other-peoples-breast-milk/on-demand/46491-001

channel4.com Kate Garraway investigates cross-feeding, breast milk donation and wet-nursing

Breastfeeding Uncovered: Channel 4 Dispatches

radiotimes.com Find out when Breastfeeding Uncovered: Channel 4 Dispatches is on TV. Episode guide, trailer, review, preview, cast list and where to stream it on demand, on catch up and download.

Big Latch On

Locations http://www.biglatchon.org/locations

This is a post from a friend of mine and I thought b***y group was the perfect place to ask 🤣🤣
If anyone has any pre baby bras they don’t think they will wear again I can collect tomorrow and drop to my friend over the weekend xx Debs 😍

The Guide group Becky works with have a link with a woman visiting Kenya at the end of July. We have been asked to donate any unwanted bras - any size, colour or condition - to help the status of Kenyan women. Many of these women cannot afford to buy bras. However if they wear one, they are not only more comfortable, but they are less likely to be attacked as they are considered to have higher social status. Please ... if you can donate any that you no longer need - to our house, work places or we could even possibly collect, they are needed before Monday 16th July, when Becky will take them to Guides and they will be passed on to be taken to Kenya. Women helping women ❤ Very many thanks. Paula and Becky # #

Morning All, can anyone give me a sentence or two to say what hot drinks at group mean to you xx

How can I keep my baby safe during hot weather? - Health questions - NHS Choices

Thought it would be worthwhile sharing this link to the nhs site although the weather is supposed to be changing again soon!

nhs.uk Babies and young children can become ill during very hot weather. Their health can be seriously affected by: dehydration heat exhaustion and heatstroke sunburn Try these tips for keeping your child happy and healthy in the heat

Families and Babies - FAB Dorset

· ****FAB SURVEY*****

Please complete.... THANK YOU # #

We are carrying out a survey of mums who have received Families and Babies (FAB) Breastfeeding Peer Support across Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole. We would be really grateful if you could help us by providing some information about you and your experience of Peer Support. We share our information with Dorset Public Health and the feedback helps to shape future services to provide help and support for new families.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/DBPBreastfeedingsupport

Unfortunately due to illness there will be no Peer Supporters at Wareham Children Centre today. If anyone needs breastfeeding support please contact Families and Babies x

Dorset, Bournemouth & Poole Survey

Message from Families and Babies ...

FAB SURVEY

Please can you share this survey wildly and widely within your groups.

If anyone that has had support could take a few minutes to fill it in please 👍

www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/DBPBreastfeedingsupport

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Families and Babies - FAB Dorset

Breastfeeding Groups in Dorset running tomorrow (MONDAY 19th MARCH)
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Shaftesbury: 10 – 11.30am. Shaftesbury Children’s Centre, Wincombe Lane, Shaftesbury, SP7 8PZ ***NOW CLOSED due to weather***

Dorchester: 10.30am – 12.00pm. Holy Trinity Church Centre, (inside Sunninghill Prep School), Culliford Road North, DT1 1QG

Stokewood and Winton: 1.00pm – 2.30pm. Stokewood and Winton Children’s Centre, 59 Stokewood Road (behind the leisure centre), Bournemouth, Dorset, BH3 7ND

Dorchester Breastfeeding Support

Are you going to Dorchester Library's Baby Shower event tomorrow? We should be easy to spot with *ahem* such an ample supply of breasts. 😉 come and say hello! ( . )( . )

Families and Babies - FAB Dorset

Breastfeeding Groups in Dorset running tomorrow (FRIDAY 16th MARCH)
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Blandford. 10.30am – 12.00pm. Children’s Centre, Black Lane, DT11 8SW

Bridport: 1.00pm – 2.30pm. Bridport Children’s Centre, Skilling Hill Road, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5LA

Weymouth: 10.00am – 12.00pm. Mulberry Children’s Centre, 2 Newstead Rd, Weymouth DT4 8JE

Swanage: 9.30am – 11.30am. Children’s Centre, Chapel Lane off High Street, Swanage, BH19 2PW

Canford Heath: 10.00am – 11.30am. Canford Heath Children’s Centre, Culliford Crescent, Poole, BH17 9DW

Kinson and West Howe: 10.30am – 12.00pm. Kinson and West Howe Children’s Centre, Moore Avenue, West Howe, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH11 8AU

Boscombe: 12.00pm – 1.30pm. Boscombe Children’s Centre, 22 Ashley Close, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 4PE

Hamworthy and Turlin Moor children's centre, 1pm- 2pm. Turlin Road, BH16 5AH

Families and Babies - FAB Dorset

Breastfeeding Groups in Dorset running tomorrow (THURSDAY 15th MARCH)
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Gillingham: 10.00am – 11.30am. The Hub, Riversmeet Leisure Centre, SP8 4HX

Wool/Bovington: 10.00am - 11.00am. Wool/Bovington Children’s Centre, Unit 5, Shopping Centre, 9 King George V Road,
Bovington, BH20 6JQ

Southbourne: 10.00am -11.30am. Pokesdown Children's Centre, 34 Somerset Road, Pokesdown, Bournemouth, BH7 6JJ

So sad that boys can’t be Peer supporters 😍

Families and Babies - FAB Dorset

Other groups may still be running x

Breastfeeding Groups in Dorset running tomorrow (THURSDAY 1st MARCH)
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Gillingham: 10.00am – 11.30am. The Hub, Riversmeet Leisure Centre, SP8 4HX

Wool/Bovington: 10.00am - 11.00am. Wool/Bovington Children’s Centre, Unit 5, Shopping Centre, 9 King George V Road,
Bovington, BH20 6JQ
*** CLOSED DUE TO WEATHER FORECAST***

Southbourne: 10.00am -11.30am. Pokesdown Children's Centre, 34 Somerset Road, Pokesdown, Bournemouth, BH7 6JJ

Please spread the word......
Due to the possibility of snow all Purbeck Children’s Centres will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week. There will be no Breastfeeding groups running at Bovington or Swanage. Please signpost mums to Families and Babies or the National Breastfeeding helpline 03001000212 for support!

Parenting Science Gang – breastmilk composition experiment

parentingsciencegang.org.uk This February, something out of the ordinary is going to happen in West London. Over a hundred breastfeeding mothers will get together to donate breastmilk for an experiment they instigated and des…

Bounty Club

Lol 😂

Image credit Helenetheillustrator

Families and Babies - FAB Dorset

I was discussing this with someone yesterday...

We've been asked about this a lot, especially recently, so here's some up to date and informative reading for you, which I hope will clarify some points in case a mum is worried 🙂 Dx

The Leaky B**b

I’m not a bad mom because my baby cries. I’m not a bad mom for responding to my baby’s cries. I’m not a bad mom that sometimes I can’t stop my baby’s cries.

Babies cry. Not to manipulate, not to punish, not to judge, not to be difficult, not to make your life miserable.

It physically causes me pain to hear my baby cry. My baby's cry hurts me if she’s not in my arms and I’m not comforting her. Her cry brings on enormous stress and anxiety, elevating my blood pressure, making it impossible for me to think about anything but soothing and helping her.

But she doesn’t do it on purpose to cause me pain and discomfort. She’s not being a spoiled brat by crying.

Babies cry because it is one of the only ways they have to communicate. And they’re brand new at the communicating thing. Babies cry because of their own stress and discomfort, not to cause stress and discomfort for others.

I used to think that babies would never cry if their parents were responsive and paying attention to their baby’s cues before it came to crying. But now I know that sometimes, babies just cry. When they’re sick, if their tummy hurts, when they’re having a bad day, if they are scared, if they’re developing a new skill, and any number of reasons.

Kind of like when I cry.

I don’t take it as a personal judgment against me as a mom if my baby cries any more. Nor do I see it as my baby being broken or difficult.

For a brief moment in time, before I thought babies wouldn’t cry if their parents were good enough, I thought they would cry to manipulate and control their parents. That, unless taught differently, they would try to have the upper hand and dominate. Without schedules and limits and even ignoring a baby’s cries, babies would grow to be spoiled children and eventually spoiled manipulative adults.

Why I believed that is complicated and full of baggage from my own childhood and social conditioning. I was warned that if I picked my baby up every time she cried, I would be teaching her that she was in charge. There were cautions that if she wasn’t on a schedule or left to cry sometimes my baby would be undisciplined, demanding, manipulative, and unable to self soothe.

And yes, I believed that even with my newborn 19 years ago.

I tried to heed the warnings. Aimed to be sure I wasn’t manipulated or controlled by my baby with her crying.

I believed it until I didn’t any more.

But I ignored it almost from the start. Actually thinking I was parenting wrong.

Why?

Because not responding to my baby’s cries felt wrong. It caused my physical pain. It brought on anxiety. It made me desperate to get to her. I couldn’t let my baby cry.

So I responded. Sometimes it has meant I just comfort and hold them while they cry if I’m not able to soothe them, say with the breast or a diaper change. Even that feels better than not responding. The least I can do is be there with them when they are upset.

Now I know that I can respond to my child’s call for help or expression of distress every time. It will not ruin her. In fact, science and personal experience has proved quite the opposite to be true.

I also know now that my baby crying isn’t a sign of my failure and that it’s ok for someone else to respond to her if I need a break. It’s even ok for me to let her cry for a moment while I collect myself and take a deep breath when I’m feeling overwhelmed by her cries- that isn’t ignoring her or neglecting her, it is giving myself what I need to care for her. It’s ok that sometimes I can’t soothe my baby and all I can do is simply hold her while she cries. It’s even ok that sometimes I cry because of her cries.

It isn’t failure. It’s parenting.

Christmas Group info.....

Wednesday 20th Breastfeeding Group at Wareham CC
Thursday 21st NO Group at Bovington
Friday 22nd Breastfeeding Group at Swanage CC

Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th, Friday 29th NO Breastfeeding Groups in Purbeck.

Wednesday 3rd, Thursday 4th, Friday 5th January Breastfeeding Groups running as normal at all CCs

Happy Christmas

Debs xx

Survey Login

This is the correct link for the survey for 0-5s x

snapsurveys.com

Children Centre have asked us to share this link to a survey re provision for 0-5s.
Please take a few minutes to have a look x
https://dorsetcc.sharepoint.com/sites/cm0-5communityoffer/

dorsetcc.sharepoint.com

Can anyone make use of this? It was donated to the CC but we can’t use it for hiring to mums x

I know it's not BF related but a deals a deal! Some mummy's can benefit....is online also; time to stock up 😃

Chico Jack's

* BREASTFEEDING MUM'S WANTED - PHOTOSHOOT*
We are on the lookout for Mumma's in the South West who would be interested in a Photoshoot with other wonderful Mumma's & of course their babies! (If you're able to travel to Salisbury/Southampton area feel free to enter too)
To capture some shots of our beautiful New Range, we figured what better way to do it other than getting our Mumma's involved themselves!
So if you, and/or any breastfeeding friends want to get involved, tag and comment in the comments. A few details are below 👇

We are doing a meetup of approximately 8 Mumma's & their babies - There will be a morning of Photos, Coffee & Cake, Mum chatter, and what's more...you will get copies of the photos taken of you & baby on the day plus some goodies! 💛

The Big Latch On info recorded 😊

Deb

Thanks to all who attended the Big Latch On in Poole this morning, we had 10 counts ☺️ Please remember the location ID number 1691 if you are going to give feedback www.biglatchon.org xx

Looking at the weather in Wareham this morning I think we may be picnicking indoors at the Children's Centre xx