Helping parents to make informed choices is at the heart of our writing and website mission, so it seemed only natural to sponsor the Breastfeeding Area at this year’s Baby Expo in Brighton. The Breastfeeding Area at Baby Expo is a space for mums to come and relax when they need to feed their little ones throughout the day at the show. We are also extremely fortunate that a team of specialist breastfeeding support workers have [...]

BrightonMums.com are thrilled to be sponsoring the Breastfeeding Area at Baby Expo in Brighton, at the Racecourse this Sunday. It’s a tremendous opportunity to help raise awareness of where to get support in the city. We will be joined by a team of specialist breastfeeding support workers courtesy of the Breastfeeding Team and Sussex Community Trust. We are putting together a ‘Food of Love Gallery’ small scale, breastfeeding gallery of pictures featuring breastfeeding mothers. Chelle [...]

It’s been one year since 60+ mums took to the cold streets of Brighton and fed their layered up little ones to show their community, feeding is public is not only normal but completely necessary. Hard to believe a year has passed since the media furor over the incident which lead to the flash mob. I was on my own, feeding my 4 month old, minding my own business when a group of fellow diners [...]

Excepts from our baby feeding picnic. Thoughts from women in our community about breastfeeding and peer support.    

Last week was National Breastfeeding Week in the UK, aimed at raising awareness and promoting support for mums who want to breastfeed. We’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s posts on their thoughts and activities. Six months after the Brighton Breastfeeding Flashmob, I decided to go ultra low key and organised a baby feeding picnic, where mums can feed together and share their experiences.

Just in case you had your head in a paper bag these last few days (with holes in of course) this week is National Breastfeeding Week in the UK. Designed to raise awareness of breastfeeding and the positive effects for mum and baby. We don’t often talk about the challenges but we’d be lying if we said there weren’t hurdles along the way. In this guest post, Greatvine expert and independent breastfeeding counsellor Nicola Dunford [...]

Pregnancy was such an utterly exciting time for me, there was everything to look forward to; but on the other hand immediately after discovering I was pregnant, I was left in charge of a failing pub. At around 28 weeks along, the pub changed hands and I found myself without a job, without maternity pay and without a career to eventually return to.

Sam runs Mummy Looks Fab (an online maternity and nursing clothes store which is rather fab). Living in Shoreham By Sea with her partner and two children, Jensen and Seren. She shares with us what she thinks is great about Brighton.

It was the first Breastfeeding Flash Mob in the South East, outside of the capital and a raging success. Over 60 women took part last Thursday, feeding their babies at The Clocktower in the city centre at 1pm. It was on the back of public bullying I had received in a cafe by members of the public. The Argus headline stated, ‘Brighton breastfeeding flash mob creates a media frenzy’ and they weren’t far from the [...]

Breastfeed Flash Mob is on. Thursday 15th December, 1pm, The Clocktower. We have chosen a central public venue, where there is space to be seated but also be noticed. The weather is predicted to be clear next week (i.e. no rain) but we will have an indoor Plan B venue lined up. We’ve made it lunchtime so if there’s friends or supporters working nearby who want to pop down, they could do so in their [...]