Other Groups

Details about other Flintshire or neighbouring areas' breastfeeding support groups.

Flintshire:
There is a Breastfeeding Support Group which meets with medical staff in the new Connah's Quay clinic (01244-813486). No Peer Supporters, but a lovely group. Wednesdays from 10am, but call and check before you set off?

Wrexham

Try their Facebook Page: Wrexham. 

• WREXHAM MA'S BAR NORTH:- A group meets each Monday lunchtime at the Llay resource Centre, Market Square, First Avenue, Llay. Contact 01978 853439 or 859020
  

• WREXHAM MA'S BAR SOUTH:- A group meets each Tuesday pm at the Chirk Clinic, Station Avenue, Chirk. Contact 01691 773581

Active group of NCT - they have a branch for Flintshire & Wrexham, with antenatal classes, postnatal groups, and regular Nearly New Sales.  Breastfeeding Counsellors, too.

Facebook contact page for Anglesey & Gwynedd : Peer Supporters trained by Sharon Breward.

A new Breastfeeding Peer Support Group is beginning in the Conwy area (NCT).  They have just (March 2011) trained up the first batch of Peer Supporters and are settling in to helping Conwy area mothers. Facebook page for the group here: Conwy.

(You don't have to be a Facebook user to see these pages, and from there you should be able to access info on meetings/phone numbers. )

In Denbighshire: If you would like to become a BF Peer Supporter, call: 01745 443132. (See article in the Rhyl Journal, summer 2011)

Also an active Peer Support System exists in the Chester area, Bosom Buddies. There are regular antenatal classes at the Countess, covering breastfeeding. Find out more from the Countess of Chester Maternity Ward, or the online list of support groups here.

On the Wirral, Homestart have a branch named Breaststart, which provides BF Peer Support. The NCT have 3 Breastfeeding Counsellors locally.

Even further afield, LLL holds meetings in Mid Wales, see their website for more details.

Active groups?
The author has no links to, or knowledge of these groups - often they are simply found using a search engine. They may no longer be running, but it should be simple enough to call & find out more? If the group has folded or changed, then it would be helpful if you could inform me so I can update this page.

Gronant

Holywell

Baby Cafes - several in Chester (Lache, Boughton), and throughout Cheshire/Wirral (none in North Wales?)

La Leche League in Cheshire (01829 250411 or 01565 621087)


Thankyou, hope that helps!