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Passed by the Scottish Parliment on 18th Nov 2004 and receiving Royal Assent on 18th Jan 2005, making it Law from 18th Mar 2005 breastfeeding your child cannot be interfered with or discriminated against in any place where a child would be able to have bottled milk... So why is it not Law in the rest of the UK?
Sign the online petition to try to get an Act of the Parliament passed that makes it an offence to prevent or stop a person breastfeeding in public.
UK baby food laws are not as strict as the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and it is currently legal to promote follow on milk. The Baby Feeding Law Group is working to get the UK to International standards and they are the people to tell if you are unhappy with the way a company is promoting infant formula.
Baby Milk Action is a non profit organisation that aims to save babies from the ill effects of formula. Water mixed with baby milk powder can be unsafe and it is often impossible in poor conditions to keep bottles and teats sterile. Unsterile bottle feeding can lead to infections that kill children and formula is also expensive, often costing more than half the entire family income.
The International Baby Food Action Network consists of public interest groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality. They monitor the baby feeding industry and produce profiles showing how companies such as Danone, Gerber, Heinz, Hipp, Milupa and Nestlé promote formula and baby food in innapropriate ways. Check out the picture of the health worker in a Nestle apron!
There are thousands of breastfeeding sites that target breastfeeding & pregnant moms.
This site is for those who are uncomfortable with public breastfeeding. It is also a centralized media resource. We have done the research for you!
Inspiring photography by Amber Parmley of moms all over nursing their children,
along with words by Nicole Hill, compiled together to promote breastfeeding all
over the world.
No Artificial Infant Milk Found Here is the website of a lactivist mum. The home page states loads of valid reasons why breastfeeding is best, not only for the baby and mother but also for the environment and the taxpayer. Noaimhere also has forums related to breastfeeding and parenting.
natya BABYSLINGS are simple, stylish English baby slings that allow you to breastfeed discreetly while you're on the go. Made in England and available in many different fabric choices so you have a sling for any ocassion. Fast, friendly service run by a UK mum.
Big Mama Slings - Your One-Stop Sling Shop. Offering a
huge variety of slings and traditional carriers for hire, as well as a
select range of unusual slings for sale. Browse through the website for
information on all aspects of baby wearing.
Little Possums - slings and baby carriers from newborn to toddler. UK based company that sell an extensive range of baby slings and related accessories. Online sales, advice and information on babywearing.
Breast Feeding and Baby Wearing - Here because attachment parenting isn't just for hippies.
Breast feeding and baby wearing clothes, slings and asian style baby carriers, patterns for you to sew and more!
Natural Mothering sell quality baby carriers and
slings, such as Maya Wrap, Ellaroo, Mama Kangaroo, Wilkinet, etc. Babies
were born to be carried and breastfed. They feel it is important to choose the
right carrier for you and your baby and offer babywearing information and
support. Run by a babywearing mum.
A small ethically run company with a large range of eco friendly books. They have a good selection of natural childbirth and midwifery books as well as books about alternatives to vaccinations. The bargain box is always worth a look if you are a gardener.
Buy these wristbands to raise funds for: The Breastfeeding Protection Initiative - expanding efforts to inform more people about breastfeeding rights and to provide them with the tools they need to become a force for change in their community; and A documentary being made to be shown in schools to educate teens about why BF is so good, and what they need to know. If nothing else it will raise awareness of BF and get kids thinking about BF and surrounding issues rather than the first time they think about it being part way through their first pregnancy. And it will help to 'normalise' it in society too, if every teen sees a documentary about BF before they leave school.
Beanmom's Nursing Advocacy Links. A huge list of pro breastfeeding things to buy from other people, You can get different T-shirts, bags, bibs, bumper stickers.......
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2006 World Record Attempt - UK The most breastfeeding mums and babies in one place. Cancelled in 2005 due to last minute drop out of the venue but keep watching the website for 2006. Breastfeeding Record Attempt
Online Retailers of an exclusive range of nursing wear, designed with hidden panels, slits and overlays. BabyDayz breastfeeding clothes not only allow easy access to your nursing bra but also provide ample coverage for discreet nursing.
Booby Beads & Bottle Beads, a mom's best friend! Colorful feeding necklaces, made to stimulate & occupy your newborn, baby or toddler while they are busy feeding. This helps keep them focused, minimizing distractions that cause pulling away, pinching, biting and other common difficulties while feeding. Shipped worldwide.
The Association of Breastfeeding Mothers connects people to a breastfeeding counsellor in their region for support and information. The helpline is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but they only take urgent calls in the late evening and overnight - calls that cannot wait until the following morning.
Charlie's Little Angels offers advice and support form preconception to breastfeeding. Our Maternity Consultant will be an invaluable resource and a pillar of strength throughout the process of maternity. Our services are tailored to your needs and we will endeavour to fulfil your expectations. We offer a global approach to maternity care in Berkshire and surrounding counties.
We are a group of volunteer mums who trained under La Leche League to become peer counsellors, enabling us to provide information and support to other mums.
The Baby Café TM is a drop in centre for pregnant and breastfeeding mums and their supporters. They are springing up all over the UK and there is one in New Zealand as well.
An online support site with forum for parents who do breastfeed, did breastfeed or hope to breastfeed in the
future and their supporters. Find hints, tips, stories and humour from those who know what it's really like - the mums who've done it!
The Breastfeeding Support Site has loads of information for mums and mums to be. There are relactation stories, tips about breastfeeding twins and a good list of frequently asked questions including information about breastfeeding with pierced nipples and after a breast reduction. They are looking for more stories too so if you have a tale to tell, here is the place.
007 Breasts - Woman's breasts are for breastfeeding! This site discusses the breast taboo and obsession, public breastfeeding, why women fail to breastfeed or wean early, benefits of breastfeeding, topfreedom, bra wearing, bras and sagging, bras and breast health, etc. The site features Normal Breasts Gallery (as opposed to the "Hollywood" idea of big & perky breasts), and offers free breastfeeding pictures and an ebook. The emphasis is on encouraging women to breastfeed and to quit worrying about the looks of their breasts.
This website is run by working mothers who breast feed their toddlers. The site ideology is that an informed choice is a happy choice and it publishes up to date research relevent to all areas of parenting including; sleep, vaccinations, starting solids etc, so that parents can make a decision based on the latest findings. It promotes sensitivity towards the needs of the baby, whilst also realising that a gentle routine based around your babys cues can be enormously beneficial.
They also sell hand carry round cards that list the laws pertaining to the sale, advertising and marketing of infant formula. They cost £1.50 and any profits will be split for donation between the ABM and the LLL on a 6 monthly basis.
My very favorite place for breastfeeding support. I graduated from misc.kids.pregnancy and have had lots of great advice from wonderful people about all sorts of stuff.
Jane's Breastfeeding Resources, a huge resource with an encyclopaedia of toddlers breastfeeding terms, a whole section on breastfeeding in public and a support facility so you can email questions to resident experts.
A wonderful resource of evidence-based information on breastfeeding, sleep and parenting. It's a huge but easy to navigate site with useful articles about medicines and herbs that are safe to take when breastfeeding, nursing strikes, constant feeding....it has never let me down!
Mother's Balm provide a variety of herbal teas for mums and mums to be. They support lactation, appetite and digestion, they can support the absorption of nutritive elements, and they can help to relax or perk you up depending on your need.
Retailer of a wide range of real cloth nappies, nappy wraps and all the
accessories. Nappy demonstrations available in Vale of white horse and North
East Wiltshire. Advice and follow on support offered.
Woollywraps - Pure wool nappy covers for cloth nappies and softest knitted
blankets. A gorgeous range including traditional wool soakers, cute wool
wraps and beautiful wool longies. Free Delivery throughout Europe!
Button-Up Nappies - a world of soft and cuddly nappies, beautifully made
by hand, and designed & sewn with care. Our designs range from slim and absorbent for little ones, to pull-up style for toddlers and older children. Quality from Top to Bottom!
Independent retailer of cloth nappies, based in Penrith, Cumbria. Advice and information about reusable nappies. New nappies and nappy products at competitive prices. 2nd hand nappies and nappy products and information about our trial scheme and buy back promise.
Nappy washing service for Yeovil, but we also cover the following Council areas. South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Sedgemoor, Mendip, North Dorset, West Dorset, parts of South Dorset and parts of West Wiltshire.
RagBags Cloth nappies and sanpro specialises in 'Real' nappies and sanpro. Exceptional value. New products arriving all the time. Brands such as Fuzzi Bunz, Wonderoos, Tots Bots, Mother-ease, Wonder-fulls, Joey Bunz, JamTots, Medela breastfeeding range and many more.
Practical Babycare - Naturally! Home of the unique HemPresto CNS - Hemp and Organic Cotton Re-usable Nappies. Complete with a range of accessories. Newly available: "Teddy Comes Too" brightly coloured soft slings for children to carry teddy or dolly just like Mummy or Daddy!
Free Cloth Nappy Trials - try before you buy! Organic cotton nappies available. Stockists of Mother-ease, Tots Bots, Popolini, Imse Vimse and Nature Babies, sign up for our newsletter for up to date product news and special offers. Wide range of Wemoon washable menstrual products held in stock.
Tree Hugger Mums brings together information on cloth nappies, breastfeeding, pregnancy and parenting. Our online shop is open 24 hours a day for all your cloth nappy needs and much much more!
Super Star Baby is a boutique specializing in unique,
sometimes colourful and always stylish baby wear, often with a retro twist.
We cater for boys and girls from birth to three years.
Our designer labels are selected from the UK, across Europe and the USA to
fulfil contempory, classic and eclectic tastes.
JuniorFashion: children's fashion's news from Junior magazine
News, features, information and trade show reports for the children's fashion industry. Brought to you by Junior: The World's Finest Parenting Magazine.
Lovely hand made shoes that stay on feet! They stay on my sons feet because of the way they are made and because they have ducks on them with flappy feet. There are loads of different designs including vikings with plaits, diggers, cows, sheep and teddies! Avila will make shoes to order so you can get your child favorite animal on them.
Kidzrags sell high quality children's clothing and accessories from well known stores such as Gap, Mothercare, Adams, Next, M&S at affordable prices. All of our items are brand new and come with free delivery. Our prices have to be seen to be believed.
A selection of gifts for everyone! Snuggly fleece blankets, hats, scarves, mittens & sleeping bags for the little ones. All you need for your dolly too – come and see our expanding range of dolls’ clothes, blankets, and accessories!
A Suffolk based on-line eco gift store offering an affordable collection of organic, natural, fair trade, recycled, green and environmentally friendly products for all the family. We specialise in organic baby products including washable nappies and blankets, Steiner style wooden toys, educational toys for older children including solar and brick construction sets, homeware, garden, gadgets, jewellery and organic toiletries. A bespoke gift wrap service is available.
Organic and fairly traded products for your family, including cloth nappies, organic
clothes, natural toiletries and fairly traded toys. Secure online ordering and fast delivery from a family run business.
Big Mama Slings stock a variety of fabrics suitable for making slings as well as metal, nylon and aluminium rings for ring slings. All rings are stress tested for safety and have been designed especially for making your own sling.
A site dedicated to fab & funky gifts, we have the perfect array of gifts & accessories to suit all tastes & styles.
To compliment your gifts we offer a gift wrap service with FREE p+p.
Rock-a-Bye-Baby Gift Boxes has a selection of baby gift boxes ranging from £19.99 upwards. And don't worry, postage is free, so the price you see is the price you pay.
I sell various hand dyed and painted wools, from opal sock wool to chunky wool. I also sell sock kits and apparell. all custom orders welcome and I do special rates for WAHM longies sellers.
Little Milestones - Little Gifts For Big Achievements - Quality gifts and gift boxes aimed at all the milestones
and achievements that children reach throughout their first 5 years.
Pure quality products for a simple iddylic childhood. Woollen underclothing, handmade waldorfdolls, deer leather booties, little tweed bags. All our products are beautiful handcrafted in the Highlands of Scotland by mums in their own home.
Spirit of Old online shop - buy a ritual wand or staff from the ancient, mystical heartland of Celtic Britain. Handcrafted pagan tools, wands, staves, pottery & divination sets. Handcrafted magickal tools with real Celtic soul!
At Cuddlebugz, you'll find 100% cotton flannelette blankets and nursery linens, cozy fleece 'Cuddlebugz' blankets, unique and funky printed nursing pads, 100% cotton t-shirts and diaper shirts with pro-breastfeeding slogans for mum and babe, and new things are added daily. $0.50 cents from each item sold is donated to Breast Cancer Reasearch.
A bit of everything on this site that is run by a work at home mum and supports others in the same position. This is a perfect place to buy presents for impossible people. They also have a weeekly competition sponsered by a mum owned and operated business that is well worth entering.
Junior: The Finest Parenting Magazine in the World. The web site delivers the same great quality mix of intelligent articles on education, travel and health as the monthly news-stand magazine, as well as an extensive web directory.
The Parent Station - Parents and Friends Connect at the Station!
The Parent Station is a community for parents of all ages to come together and communicate about everything ranging from our children, current events, and arts and crafts, to religious and philosophical subjects. Our community and its extras are always free! We are open 24/7 because your job as a parent is a life-long adventure!
Baby Blissful is an online magazine and resource for pregnancy, childbirth and beyond. Aims to inform and encourage, to enlighten and inspire. Very interested in child development theories and alternative parenting practices without hugging too many trees! Also looks at broader socio-political and ecological issues.
A great website with forums for all sorts of things; recipes, house and garden, baby and toddler and best of all - a really supportive homeworkers formum.
A locally run site for parents and carers with what's on guide, reviews of local attractions and restaurants, forum, competitions and more. Also bi-monthly free magazine, available from libraries, toddler groups, pre-schools etc.
This website looks at all the life changing elements of parenthood, even the grim bits!! Through the sharing of personal experiences, parents offer support, reassurance, information, ideas and practical solutions.
Mobile and Studio Photography company based in Kent and covering London and the Home Counties. Bumps, babies, children, adults, pets and Weddings all catered for.
Mooncup: The award winning feminine hygiene product that is gentle on the body. One Mooncup lasts for years making it the cheapest and most eco-friendly sanitary protection you can buy.
Mariahs's soaps and bathcare products, all made up to order, so freshly made up to get sent out, soaps, bathbombs, bathsalts, gift baskets and lots more, for everyone.
A Work At Home Mum shop full of items to spoil yourself or great for gift shopping. Choose from Incense, Oils, Natural Jewellery, Candles, Soaps and lots more.
The Green Parent is a vibrant green lifestyle magazine for all the family. Packed with articles on parenting, learning, nutrition, breastfeeding, eco-house and garden and much much more, it's well worth a read
Online shop for grain mills and flakers and so you can make all the porridge and cereals for your children fresh from scratch, which can be very beneficial for their health.
AP-BIZ brings together parents who wish to successfully combine their work world (in or out of the home) with raising a family with an attachment parenting emphasis. Site includes several helpful articles, and a directory of AP-owned businesses.
Butterflies and Dragons, supplier of beautiful childrens toys, gifts and furniture. Many of the toys are designed to encourage creative and imaginative play. We also stock the lovely Melissa and Doug range of toys. In addition to our website, we also visit local playgroups, schools and businesses and attend fetes and hold sales.
We specialise in providing children's play tables , sand tables and bead frame tables to both businesses and the home. If your reception area or waiting room needs a childrens activity table to keep the children occupied then we'd be delighted to help. The place for your waiting room play tables and childrens wooden toys is playtime tables.
Stork Gifts for luxurious and unusual baby gifts & toys. Gifts, Toys and nursery products from unique baby brands including Doudou et Compagnie, Latitude Enfant, Oskar&ellen and D for Diamond. Pamper babies with luxury mobiles, play mats, soft toys, jewellery, baby shoes and more.
Bold, bright and stimulating toys and gifts for
children including backpacks, bookends, height charts, jewellery, puzzles,
rag dolls, skipping ropes and wooden toys.
Find unusual and personalised Baby gifts, Height Charts and Educational Toys, Free Children’s book with all orders.. Visit our Dinosaur Den & Fairy & Funky Girl, For Unique Gifts you will fall in love with. We provide gifts that will be Treasured a Lifetime.
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