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April 22, 2015
I am currently compiling the experiences of local mothers to present directly to the council budget committee. Post the link to this petition on your Facebook wall today and email your local representative to demand they protect these support groups.
April 22, 2015
The outpouring of support for these groups proves that our community refuses to let mothers lose their lifeline. Post the link to your Facebook timeline and text three friends who rely on these services to keep the pressure on our local representatives.
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Every mum deserves to have access to trained breastfeeding support and by closing this group you will be doing mums across Cumbria a huge disservice. Without the proper support it has been shown time and time again that mums will simply stop breastfeeding before they want to. Breastfeeding saves this country millions of pounds each year and should be at the forefront of government agenda and funding.
Support for breastfeeding mums is essential, I for one probably couldn't have been successfully breastfeeding 8 months in and counting without the support of my local groups!
An invaluable resource offering much needed support in the early days and providing an opportunity to discuss anything and everything as babies develop. The skills and rapport of the leader with us Mums are crucial to the groups' success. (Wendy does a fabulous job at Belah.) It's difficult to see how the service could continue with much less qualified volunteers, as has been suggested.
I went to the Belah group for 11 months and found it invaluable. It's a disgrace that the ending of these groups is even being considered, especially when we are always being told how important breastfeeding is.
I can't even comprehend that after all the studies on breastfeeding benefits for both baby and mum that funding would be axed. Someone needs to speak up for families in this area. So many cuts clearly made by London politicians with no regard to babies and children who don't have a vote.
These groups are being cut all over the country. This is an invisible scandal that is effecting the health of mothers and babies everywhere.
I wish there had been a group like this when I had my first baby in 1972.
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Updates
April 22, 2015
I am currently compiling the experiences of local mothers to present directly to the council budget committee. Post the link to this petition on your Facebook wall today and email your local representative to demand they protect these support groups.
April 22, 2015
The outpouring of support for these groups proves that our community refuses to let mothers lose their lifeline. Post the link to your Facebook timeline and text three friends who rely on these services to keep the pressure on our local representatives.
28 Comments
If it wasn't for my local breast feeding support group, I wouldn't have breast fed my little boy. It was through their support and advice that I learned the right technic for holding my baby. And their encouragement kept me going when I thought I wasn't doing very well, they made me believe in myself. Because breast feeding isn't as easy as it sounds and looks.
Every mum deserves to have access to trained breastfeeding support and by closing this group you will be doing mums across Cumbria a huge disservice. Without the proper support it has been shown time and time again that mums will simply stop breastfeeding before they want to. Breastfeeding saves this country millions of pounds each year and should be at the forefront of government agenda and funding.
Support for breastfeeding mums is essential, I for one probably couldn't have been successfully breastfeeding 8 months in and counting without the support of my local groups!
An invaluable resource offering much needed support in the early days and providing an opportunity to discuss anything and everything as babies develop. The skills and rapport of the leader with us Mums are crucial to the groups' success. (Wendy does a fabulous job at Belah.) It's difficult to see how the service could continue with much less qualified volunteers, as has been suggested.
I went to the Belah group for 11 months and found it invaluable. It's a disgrace that the ending of these groups is even being considered, especially when we are always being told how important breastfeeding is.
I can't even comprehend that after all the studies on breastfeeding benefits for both baby and mum that funding would be axed. Someone needs to speak up for families in this area. So many cuts clearly made by London politicians with no regard to babies and children who don't have a vote.
These groups are being cut all over the country. This is an invisible scandal that is effecting the health of mothers and babies everywhere.
I wish there had been a group like this when I had my first baby in 1972.
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If it wasn't for my local breast feeding support group, I wouldn't have breast fed my little boy. It was through their support and advice that I learned the right technic for holding my baby. And their encouragement kept me going when I thought I wasn't doing very well, they made me believe in myself. Because breast feeding isn't as easy as it sounds and looks.