FriendsBF

Friends of Breastfeeding needs your support!

Run, walk or jog the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon with us on June 4th and help us to raise much needed funds.

Don’t delay, register today! Closing date for registration is Friday 20th April.

Register online at http://www.florawomensminimarathon.ie or with the Evening Herald.

Register now as the…[Read more]

Why not join us in running the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon and help raise much needed funds for Friends of Breastfeeding?

You can register online at http://www.florawomensminimarathon.ie/ or with The Evening Herald from Wednesday 22nd February 2012 – Friday 20th April 2012.

When you’ve registered, just pop us a mail with your registration num…[Read more]

Sabbi, your support is really appreciated! If you have not done so yet, pleaseregister soon as we have been told that there are limited places this year for participants. Email me at sales@friendsofbreastfeeding.ie for our Mini Marathon info.

Whether or not you are attending the protest tomorrow, you can help make the event a success:

1. Share the event http://www.facebook.com/events/359931310688554/ as widely as possible (your wall, groups, bf support pages, etc) and invite anyone you think might be interested (online or in real life!)

2. Take part virtually! For this, you simply…[Read more]

The time of the protest has been changed!! We will now congregate at 10.30am and stay until approximately noon. You don’t need to be able to stay for the entire protest, even coming along for 10 minutes will make a difference.

Here’s the location of the protest on googlemaps http://g.co/maps/dg2hu. The Facebook offices are in the building that…[Read more]

@ Sabbi, protest is on Monday 6th Feb @ 1030am

Hope to see you there!

If you’re wondering what the big deal is, why anyone would post photos of themselves nursing or why we’re asking you to turn up on Monday February 6th at Facebook’s headquaters on Hanover Quay, Dublin, then check out this youtube video, it really explains it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r19mvGvB8M

If you don’t have 5 minutes, you can…[Read more]

You may have heard that Facebook has been deleting photos of nursing mothers, from the mums own private accounts. Many mothers have even had their accounts suspended or deleted for repeated “breaches” of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, because they supposedly contain “nudity, pornography or graphic sexual content”. This is…[Read more]

Day 5 of National Breastfeeding Week sees a blog post from journalist and author Victoria White and it’s another gem! http://www.friendsofbreastfeeding.blogspot.com/

Day 5 of National Breastfeeding Week sees a blog post from journalist and author Victoria White and it’s another gem! http://www.friendsofbreastfeeding.blogspot.com/

Where:

Citywest Shopping Centre (Dublin)
Mahon Point Shopping Centre (Cork).
Cafe4u, The Bridge Shopping Centre, Tullamore (Offaly),
Old Cork Road, Limerick,
Tumble Jungle Ballina Co.Mayo,
Raheen Woods hotel Athenry, Galway

Contacts: Dublin – Jolene Keating & Fiona Daly

Cork – Maria Moulton & Annette…[Read more]

The Challenge is only a few days away and we’re all getting very excited!!
There are some fabulous prizes up for grabs on the day including vouchers and even a weekend away to the fabulous County Arms Hotel in Birr, Offaly!
Goody bags are in high demand so make sure you send us your registration so we can do everything we can to ensure you get…[Read more]

Don’t forget to register early to be guaranteed to receive your goody bag. All you have to do is pop us an email with your name, baby’s name and preferred venue to Jolene @ enquiries@friendsofbreastfeeding.ie

Venues: Citywest Shopping Centre, Dublin
Mahon Point Shopping Centre, Cork
Cafe4U, The Bridge Centre,…[Read more]

Hi all,

We have goody bags at each event packed full of interesting goodies, to avoid disappointment on the day,
please register early to be guaranteed to receive your goody bag. All you have to do is pop us an email with
your name, baby’s name and preferred venue to Jolene @ enquiries@friendsofbreastfeeding.ie

We also have a very special…[Read more]

What is "The Challenge"?
The aim of this Challenge is to get as many mammies living in Ireland to breastfeed simultaneously at 11am on 1st October 2011 at our three venues:
Citywest Shopping Centre – Dublin
Mahon Point Shopping Centre – Cork
Cafe4U, The Bridge Centre – Tullamore
Our numbers will then be combined for a total for Ireland. Last…[Read more]

hi lolliek

i’m sure we’ll still be there 🙂
you are most welcome to pop down before you have your baby to ask any questions you like and see the pro’s in action 😛

i have info packs if you are interested in getting one before babs is born, some great info in them!

all the best of luck,
jolene

Just to clarify, there are two Spraoi events each year now. Spraoi in the Park caters for kids and families, is run at the start of July, and that was the event during which we had some FoBF meet ups which were great craic by the way 🙂

The information listed above is for the main Spraoi event which is run on the Aug bank holiday weekend. It’s a…[Read more]

There is a breastfeeding support group in Drogheda, although you can never have too many 🙂

Here’s the details:
Cuidiu "Mother to mother" breastfeeding support group;
2nd and 4th Thursday of month @ 10.30 – midday
Venue; Church of ireland parish hall, Peter St, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Contact Petrina 087 9077973

thanks a million sabbi 🙂

Just a reminder for the Meet & Greet

Hope to see you there…