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Mary Renfrew launches
Beeston Baby Café 28th
December 2004
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Beeston Hill Baby
Café in Leeds celebrated their launch on Wednesday 13th October by
inviting Professor Mary Renfrew from the Mother
and Infant Research Unit at Leeds University to be the guest speaker.
Funded by Sure Start, the Beeston Hill
Baby Café is growing in popularity and has moved to a new
location to accommodate the larger numbers of mums and babies
attending.
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Cheshire Four
Celebrate Joint Opening 28th
October 2004
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| On 28th October Central Cheshire
celebrated the opening of four Baby Cafés with a joint party in Crewe.
Mums, babies and health professionals from Nantwich,
Northwich, Winsford
and Crewe Baby Cafés enjoyed a
pleasant lunch, fabulous cake and a good chat. |
Photo: Chronicle Papers
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More than sixty
people attended the first Baby Café Conference, entitled 'If We Could
Talk to the Animals,' which took place at Woburn Safari Park on 29th
September. It was the perfect opportunity to share ideas and learn more
about the Baby Café initiative.
Guest speakers included Dr. Mike Woolridge from Leeds University, who
talked about social structures that support breastfeeding, and Gillian
Weaver from the UK Association of Milk Banking. We were delighted to
welcome Maxine Hooker, from the Hawke's Bay Baby Café New Zealand, who
spoke about the successful launch of The Baby Café in New Zealand.
Conference delegates enjoyed the somewhat unusual opportunity to feed the
lemurs. Shown here 'talking to the animals' are guest speaker
Gillian Weaver (left) with Catherine Pardoe, National Baby Café
Coordinator.
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Northampton
Baby Café opens in World Breastfeeding Week 4th
September 2004
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Northampton
Baby Café mums were in party mood to celebrate their launch on the
6th August to coincide with World Breastfeeding Week. The launch was
attended by lots of mums, babies, toddlers, health professionals and
press. The deputy Mayor of Northampton, Councillor Sally Beardsworth
officially opened the Baby Café and MP Sally Keeble also attended.
Interviews were broadcast by BBC Radio Northampton and the local commercial
radio station. Everyone enjoyed a buffet lunch and specially
made cake. A local toy manufacturer donated cuddly toys to give out the
babies and a local toy shop handed out discount vouchers to the mums and
bubbles to the toddlers. The whole occasion had a brilliant
party atmosphere.
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First
New Zealand Baby Café launch 18th
August 2004
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During World Breastfeeding Week in August 80 people from all sectors
of the community attended the launch of Hawke's
Bay Baby Café, the first to open in New Zealand, and the
first registered Baby Café outside the UK. The launch party was a
great success with the local mayor, Hawkes Bay District Health Board CEO
Chris Clark and Parents Centre New Zealand CEO Viv Gurrey all speaking.
A sculpture was unveiled and the cake cut. Katie Askew, President
of Napier Parents Centre and the Hawke's Bay Baby Café Project Leader
described the show of health community support as overwhelming.
Earlier in the week The Baby Café held an afternoon tea for mums and
babies at a local café, the first event in a promotion planned for the
next year towards the '2005 World Breastfeeding Week Baby Friendly Community
Initiative'. By inviting the local mayor and press they were able
to raise community awareness of the importance of providing
breastfeeding-friendly venues.
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Baby Café included
in Child Health Institute course 12th
August 2004
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| Julie Williams, one of the Baby Café
founders, was invited to the Institute of Child Health to talk to the
participants of the 'Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy Course 2004' about
The Baby Café Initiative. Some delegates had recently visited The
Baby Café in Haywards Heath where Catherine Pardoe had shown them,
first hand, how mothers are supported in every aspect of breastfeeding. |
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Otley
Baby Café opens in historic venue 15th
June 2004
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On Tuesday 15th June Otley Baby Café in
West Yorkshire was officially launched. The Chief Executive of the Leeds
North West Primary Care Trust, Lesley Smith (shown here cutting the
cake), officially opened the café. 19 mums came with their babies,
along with health professionals, a local councillor, volunteer
breastfeeding counsellors and Yorkshire TV who were making a programme
about children and eating.
Otley Baby Café is held in the Courthouse Centre in Otley, which is of
great historical interest and has been sensitively restored as a
community and arts centre. The café will be a resource for local
mums and also for visitors to the town.
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A
Sure Start for Peterborough Baby Café 14th
May 2004
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| The launch of Sure
Start First Steps Peterborough Baby Café on Friday 14th May coincided
with National Breastfeeding Awareness Week. It is the first Baby
Café in Cambridgeshire and will provide a welcome source of support and
correct information for breastfeeding mums in Peterborough.
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Baby Cafés across the country took part in National Breastfeeding
Awareness Week along with many other organisations and NHS trusts.
Organised by the Department of Health the week aims to raise awareness
of the health benefits of breastfeeding and to increase social
acceptance of and promote support for breastfeeding. During the week the
Department of Health released figures showing that serious
misunderstandings may be stopping women, particularly young women, from
breastfeeding.
Read
breastfeeding myths and facts
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First
London Baby Café
now open 26th
April 2004
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| The Kilburn
Priory Baby Café in South Hampstead was declared open by Mayor Nasim
Ali, who was joined by his wife and his six-month old son, Rio. He
chatted to some of the volunteers offering support to breastfeeding
mothers. The Baby Café is funded by Sure Start. |
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Health professionals and others working in the field of breastfeeding
gathered at Haywards Heath Baby Café in February to learn more about how to set up
and run a Baby Café drop-in. During part of the day they were
able to experience a Baby Café session in action.
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Friday 16th January saw the launch of Didcot Baby Café,
the eleventh Baby Café
in the UK. The sun shone, the mothers turned in droves and the Mayor was
invited to cut the ribbon to officially open the café.
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Tenth
Baby Café
is launched in Leeds 15th January 2004
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| The highly successful launch
of Moortown Baby Café in Leeds on Thursday 15th January 2004 was attended by lots of local
breastfeeding mums. Mike Woolridge, Senior Lecturer in Infant
Feeding in the Mother and Infant Research Unit, Leeds University,
congratulated the Moortown Baby Café
team, and Baby Café
founders Catherine Pardoe and Julie Williams were invited to cut the cake. |
Moortown Baby Café
Team are pictured, from left to right, Kate Hewiston, Susan Wallis
Barbara White, Terry Waddington, Jane Gavin and Angela Hewett.
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Woman's
Hour features the Baby Café
13th January 2004
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BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour featured
a report from the Baby Café
in Haywards Heath. Breastfeeding advisers Julie Williams and
Catherine Pardoe explained the aims of The Baby Café
and discussed the kind of support that breastfeeding mothers need,
especially in the early weeks. Mums (and a dad) described why they
come to the Baby Café
and how it has been helpful to them.
You can listen to a recording of the feature by visiting the Woman's Hour
website.
Listen
now
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Newcastle
Westgate Baby Café
launch
12th January 2004
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On Monday 12th January Sure Start Westgate Baby Café
in Newcastle became the ninth Baby Café
to open its doors to breastfeeding mums and their supporters. You
can see more pictures on the Westgate
page.
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Breast
isn't best, bakers told mums 7th January 2004
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Newcastle's
Westgate
Baby Café hit the local news when they planned to throw a party for their
launch. According to the Newcastle Evening
Chronicle, "...when
(the Baby Café) asked Asda in Gateshead's MetroCentre to make a
cake iced with a breastfeeding woman (the Baby Café logo!) for the
celebration it was turned away by staff, who branded the idea 'offensive'."
Heather Neil, a National Childbirth Trust breastfeeding adviser who helped
set up Westgate Baby Café, told the newspaper, "The logo itself is very
stylised, tasteful and shows just a hint of cleavage...it's worrying that
Asda staff reacted like this and gave the impression there's something
wrong with breastfeeding."
According to the Chronicle, the problem was resolved when an Asda
spokesman said, "...obviously common sense has to prevail and this
was a misunderstanding. We...would be happy for them to bring it
back and we'll make them a free cake."
The Westgate Baby Café launch is on Monday 12th January from 1pm to 3pm. |
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BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
visits The Baby Café 24th
November 2003
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| Lizz Pearson, a researcher
for BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour visited Haywards Heath Baby Café and
recorded interviews with Catherine Pardoe (seen here on the left) and
Julie Williams, Baby Café founders. She also interviewed many of
the mums (and one dad) who had come along, and asked them what they
thought about The Baby Café. The feature is due to be
broadcast soon. |
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The 2003 Unicef Baby Friendly
Initiative
Conference in Bournemouth provided the perfect opportunity for Baby
Café staff to meet and share ideas. The photo shows Marilyn Rogers (Elland
Sure Start), Karen Crome (Cullompton) and Julie Williams
(Haywards Heath).
Click here to
go to Unicef
Babyfriendly UK
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