Baby CafeBaby Café. Getting the right support and information about feeding your baby in the early weeks and months of life is important as it helps you to lay a healthy foundation for your baby’s later health and development. In our Baby Café the Sure Start Health Team will be on hand to support with queries around: Breast feeding: the benefits to mum and baby, is baby getting enough, hand and pump expression and storage, breast feeding and medication, responsive feeding and much more. Formula feeding: is baby getting enough or too much, making up bottles & sterilization, reflux, responsive feeding, skin-to-skin contact and strategies for relief of colic and constipation. Weaning: What age to start weaning; suitable weaning foods, textures and consistency. It is also a chance to enjoy a well-deserved cup of tea/coffee and chat with other parents. Each week we will have taster sessions of different Sure Start programmes that will support your baby’s health and development. Enquire
Starting Strong with Sure Start workshopA Sure Start workshop offering advice on giving your baby the best start in life. Come along to get helpful tips on giving your baby the best start in life. Information available on breast feeding, formula feeding and weaning. Our health visitors and midwife are present to provide up to date evidence based information on getting breast feeding off to a good start, how best to maintain a good milk supply, its importance and how to ensure a good latch, supplying to the milk bank etc. There are also additional services which may include: A Mothercare information stand, bra fitting and measuring service, a breast cancer awareness display and a donation box for old bras. Sure Start South Armagh has obtained Unicef stage two accreditation and all our buildings have a designated breast feeding area. Enquire
