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Mother & Baby
Magazine award for Pam 12th
November 2005
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| In their November 2005 issue,
Mother & Baby Magazine announced that the winner of their Health
Professional of the Year Award was Pam Rollings, a Staffordshire
community midwife who also runs Knutson Baby Café. Pam was nominated by mum Lindsey Morris who lives in
Newcastle-under-Lyme and has a seven month old baby daughter, Neve.
Lindsey commented, "Looking back over the past few months, I've had
quite a tough time, and I don't know how I'd have coped without Pam's
support and encouragement...She definitely goes above and beyond the call
of duty."
Pam, pictured right with Neve, said she planned to use some of the
prize money to buy some breastfeeding books to loan out at Knutton Baby
Café. |
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Baby Café Health Visitor wins
Nurse of Year Award 11th
November 2005
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Margaret Holtz, a Health Visitor working in Wymondham,
Norfolk has won the Health Visitor Category of the Dettol Community Nurse
of the Year Awards. She was nominated by fellow nurse Barbara Small for her
vision, determination and enthusiasm when single handedly setting up a
Baby Café to promote breast-feeding in the area. Margaret didn’t just
talk about the idea, against all the odds she set it up and got it working
in record time.
The first of its kind in the Norfolk area, the Baby Café offers
mums in the area free support and advice on breast-feeding. Margaret spent
time outside her normal nursing hours working hard to get the initiative
up and running. Barbara believes Margaret has gone beyond the call of duty
in offering this essential support to new mums.
Judges were impressed by the work taken on by Margaret in getting such
an initiative off the ground and believe that she thoroughly deserves
recognition for her determination despite the barriers she would have
faced. They also welcomed the fact that the Baby Café is now available to
benefit mums throughout the community.
On being presented with her prize, Margaret, exclaimed: “I am
absolutely delighted and so proud to win this award. This is a great
reflection on all the hard work of my fabulous team!”
Margaret was also presented with a Ł500 professional bursary, flowers
and champagne.
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Dettol
Community Nurse of the Year |
The Baby Café
National Conference 28th September 2005
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Baby Cafés have now been providing breastfeeding help and support for five
years.
On Wednesday September 28th 2005 at Woburn Safari Park, Bedfordshire delegates
gathered to celebrate the launch of The Baby
Café Charitable Trust and find out how this will benefit individual Baby
Cafés. Guest speaker Mary Renfrew gave a talk about Community Breastfeeding
Support. Shown here are Trustees of The Baby Café Charitable Trust, Helen
Bilton and Susan McGuiness making friends with the Woburn parrots.
Conference pictures
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Birmingham Birthday
Celebrations 9th August
2005
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Coinciding with National
Breastfeeding Awareness Week 2005 (May 8-14), the Baby Café in the Handsworth
and Winson Green areas of Birmingham celebrated its first birthday.
The group, which is funded through
the Sure Start programme, celebrated the day by eating a healthy lunch and
watching the theatre group, Women and Theatre, perform a short play
entitled ‘Breast Mate’.
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Charity Status for
The Baby Café 12th
July 2005
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| Exciting news - The
Baby Café is now a charitable trust. More detailed information
about what this means for The
Baby Café at a national level, and how individual Baby Cafés will
benefit, will be presented at the Conference on 28th September 2005 at
Woburn Safari Park.
Conference details
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Food for Thought in Northampton
1st June 2005
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To celebrate
Breastfeeding Awareness Week Northampton
Baby Café held an extended session on Friday 13th May and invited
mums and health professionals to stay for lunch. They asked their
local Food For Thought Initiative to prepare some homemade soup and fresh
fruit platters. The day was a huge success and the mums all
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MP Launches Eltham
Baby Café 18th May
2005
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| As part of Breastfeeding
Awareness Week, Greenwich Teaching Primary Care Trust officially launched
The Baby Café in Eltham. Clive Efford, MP for Eltham officially opened
the Café and presented certificates to 5 local breastfeeding mothers who
recently completed a short mother-mother breastfeeding support training
course. Mr. Efford said that initiatives such as this helped local people
to build relationships both in and outside of a group setting and gave
tremendous support to young mothers at home. |
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congratulated the mothers who had undertaken the course adding that he
felt sure that many other mothers would follow on and that others trained
would go on to become further educated in this field, making a
contribution to the wider community. |
Happy 5th Birthday Baby Cafe No.
1 9th May 2005
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On Monday 9th May
The Baby Café in Haywards Heath held a party to celebrate their 5th
Birthday. Amongst the guests were mums who have attended over the five
years that the Baby Café has been open. The Mayor of Haywards Heath cut
the special cake and National Baby Café coordinator Julie Williams spoke
about how the Baby Café had developed nationally and internationally since
2000 when she set up Haywards Heath Baby Café along with colleague
Catherine Pardoe. Five years on the cafe is now funded and run by the
Mid-Sussex Primary Care Trust.
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Northampton Hits a
Century! 13th May 2005
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| Northampton
Baby Café recently welcomed their 100th mum (pictured right).
The Baby Café is thriving and holds a baby massage session most weeks
which is very popular with mums and babies alike.
During National
Breastfeeding Awareness Week (8th-15th May) they extended their
session and invited mums and health professionals to stay for lunch.
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Baby Café in Guardian Grass
Roots 16th March 2005
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An interview with
Catherine Pardoe, one of the Baby Café national coordinators featured in
The Guardian newspaper on 16th March. In the interview Catherine describes
the development of the Baby Café idea and the ways in which Baby Cafés
across the country provide support to breastfeeding mums.
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| Monday 4th February 2005 was a
big occasion for Marks Gate Baby Café
in Romford, Essex when Margaret Hodge, Minister for Children and
Barking M.P. visited. Ms Hodge declared the Baby Café officially
open and is shown here cutting the cake. Afterwards she spent time
chatting with mums and babies.
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