North Cotswold Breastfeeding Support

26/12/2025

The cognitive demands of motherhood

23/12/2025

A chance to meet other parents-to-be in a safe and supportive environment
Free and no need to book

12/12/2025

Come along to Baby Café for ante-natal and post-natal support.
Wednesdays each week above Kyndfolk, you can order coffee and cake from your phone.
Meet other mums and share your stories, all with a trained breastfeeding counsellor and NCT practitioner to answer your questions and provide support

10/12/2025

Weekly .folk Postnatal Social Support Meet-Up — Join us today!

Pop in for a cuppa, a chat, and warm, gentle support as you navigate life with a new baby 💕🥰
10am–12pm
Gheluvelt Park
75 Waterworks Rd, Worcester WR1 3EZ

✨ Drop in anytime — no booking required

A welcoming, relaxed space for new and expectant parents to connect, share experiences, and feel supported in the postnatal period. Whether you’re looking for friendly conversation, community, or breastfeeding support, we’re here for you.
We’d love to see you there!

10/12/2025

09/12/2025

✨ IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT ✨

Do you know someone who is expecting a baby:

💕 The gift that will have a lifetime effect 💕

https://ncotsbreastfeeding.co.uk/

04/12/2025

✨✨ Are you experiencing breastfeeding difficulties? ✨✨
❤ Our experienced team can offer personalised support to help you break down your goals into manageable steps and find effective solutions.
✨✨ Contact us today to start your journey toward easier breastfeeding.✨✨

02/12/2025

Weekly .folk Meet-Up — Join us tomorrow!

Pop in for a cuppa, a chat, and gentle breastfeeding support

10am–12pm
Located in Gheluvelt Park
75 Waterworks Rd, Worcester WR1 3EZ
Drop in anytime — no booking required

A welcoming space for new parents to connect, share experiences, and feel supported. We’d love to see you there! 💛

01/12/2025

Following on from our post last week about breastfeeding women feeling hungry and fuelling their bodies. This post from Hazel Findlay really resonated. What do you think?

I’ve been thinking a lot about how many of us (especially women) grew up with the message that eating is something to be managed, minimised, or controlled and anything less than being thin is a moral failing (just revisit Friends TV show if you want proof). Fuelling properly gets framed as a kind of failure. Over time it becomes a deeper belief: don’t trust your body. If you’re hungry, it must be wrong. If you’re tired, you should push through. Someone else knows better than you do.

Motherhood forces all of that into the light. Pregnancy, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding — especially if you’re climbing at the same time — make your body’s needs impossible to ignore. And yet, women are generally given very little information about what these phases actually demand. Health guidance is often absent, based on limited research, or makes weight loss the focal point rather than proper nourishment.

Breastfeeding is hugely costly for the body requiring as much as a 1000 extra calories and a certain amount of fat stored to support a stable milk supply — especially if you’re feeding through the night and doing other exercise like climbing. Many mums stop breastfeeding because their supply dropped or their babies weren’t gaining fast enough, without ever being told what their bodies actually needed to sustain it.

I’ve felt that growing into womanhood is so much about rebuilding trust in my own body. Taking responsibility, ignoring the noise, picking role models wisely, understanding that fuelling properly is not a moral failure, relearning how to listen to hunger, tiredness, and the quieter signals we’ve been taught to override since we were teenagers.

This is especially important for mothers but I imagine most serious climbers might be on a similar journey. Let me know in the comments.

photo from Bishop

28/11/2025

Buy as a present or for yourself
Plan your feeding for peace of mind:
Online, Private Ante-Natal Feeding Workshop and Post-Natal Feeding check and video support
https://ncotsbreastfeeding.co.uk/

27/11/2025

Buy as a present or for yourself
Plan your feeding for peace of mind:
Online, Private Ante-Natal Feeding Workshop and Post-Natal Feeding check and video support
https://ncotsbreastfeeding.co.uk/

26/11/2025

Amy is the breastfeeding counsellor at Holistic Birth Worcestershire baby cafe this morning. Come along 🥰