A company in the USA have started making these very cute newborn hats to remind any health professionals at the hospital that you are breastfeeding you baby and don’t want him/her to be given a bottle. What an excellent idea! Click here for more info.

The latest edition of La Leche League International’s magazine, New Beginnings, is available now to read online. Enjoy!

Quote of the day from the British Nutrition Foundation website (www.nutrition.org.uk):

“Apart from breastmilk, no single food contains all the essential nutrients the body needs to be healthy and function efficiently.”

And so say all of us!!

World Breastfeeding Week runs from August 1st until August 7th, 2010. This year, the focus is on ’Just 10 Steps’ to encourage exclusive breastfeeding within all maternity facilities. We will we supporting and celebrating World Breastfeeding Week on Wednesday August 4th and would love for you to join us!

Find more information on this year’s World Breastfeeding Week by clicking here.

There are two petitions which are currently gathering support before being presented to the Prime Minister.

The first asks the Prime Minister to bring in new and specific legislation in England and Wales, to make it an offence to prevent a parent or caregiver feeding milk to a hungry child, in any location the child has a right to be. We also ask that this legislation makes it a specific offence to intimidate or harass the parent or caregiver feeding their child. You can sign this petition here.

The second asks the Prime Minister to implement the WHO Code for the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and ban all marketing of infant formula (including follow-on formula) in the UK and to properly regulate this. You can sign this petition here.

Let’s hope that together we can make a difference!

The Be a Star campaign is based in Solihull and is dedicated to increasing the number of young mums who choose to breastfeed. They hope to do this by showcasing the beauty, confidence and pride that comes with breastfeeding, as well as providing breastfeeding information and support and highlighting the unique health benefits that it brings to both baby and mum.

http://www.beastar.org.uk/

The new UK-WHO Growth Charts for children from birth to 4 years of age are now available. The charts have been developed as a project undertaken within the Science and Research Department led by Professor Charlotte Wright from the University of Glasgow and funded by the Department of Health.

http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/Research/UK-WHO-Growth-Charts

If all British babies were breastfed for three months, the NHS would save £50 million a year on the treatment of one childhood disease – gastroenteritis

Just think how much we have all saved the NHS eh?

Don’t throw away your old bras that don’t fit anymore – donate to this organisation and they will give them to women who really need bras but for whatever reason cannot afford/obtain them. Nursing and maternity bras also welcome as well as normal ones.

http://www.breasttalk.co.uk/bra-appeal/

This is so very funny, thanks Maddy

http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2009/05/when-breastfeeders-attack.html