Breast Feeding Network

The Breastfeeding Network offers free information and support for you. 

Trained peers supporters are available throughout your feeding journey including offering antenatal infant feeding workshops, in hospital support and free drop in groups within the community. 

The team can support families exclusively breastfeeding, combi-feeding, pumping/expressing and those wanting to move on from breastfeeding. 

Groups provide support and a safe welcoming place to meet other families. 

For further information follow us on Facebook or Instagram @BreastfeedingNetworkShropshire or visit the website

Breastfeeding Helplines - The Breastfeeding Network

Better Health – Start for Life

The place for trusted NHS advice and guidance to help you have a healthy and happy baby during pregnancy, birth and parenthood.

Start4Life

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Families in Telford

Families in Telford are a voluntary project running groups on Woodside and Sutton Hill in Telford. We welcome parents and carers with under-fives to join us and enjoy time with their children.

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Home-Start

Being a parent has never been easy. It can be lonely, frustrating, heart breaking and over-whelming. All parents struggle at one time or another. You are not alone. Home-Start’s expert staff and trained volunteers work alongside families just like yours to give non-judgmental, compassionate and confidential support.

Home-visiting (weekly)

One to one volunteer peer support through visits to families in their own homes. Volunteers listen and support parents to resolve issues, they signpost and can accompany to appointments

‘Me Time’ (term time only)

A group supporting emotional wellbeing, creche provided. Hollinswood, Monday afternoon

Bump to babies (term time only, HLC)

A group for parents and babies to socialise and play. Monday afternoons  

Bump to babies (term time only, High Ercall)

A group for parents and babies to socialise and play. Tuesday mornings

Dads’ group (monthly, Jungle land)

A chance for dads to come together, enjoy refreshments and watch their children play

Chatterbox Wednesday (term time only)  

This is a group for parents and their pre-school children to enjoy activities together.

Friday Playing Together (term time only)  

This is a group for parents and their pre-school children to enjoy activities together.

Teenage mum me time (term time only)  

This is a weekly drop-in group for mums under 19. Sessions include crafts, pampering, relaxation and peer support

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Health Visitors

Health visitors offer support and advice to families on a variety of topics which include promotion and management of breastfeeding, supporting new mothers with post-natal depression, parenting programmes and putting parents in touch with a variety of specialist services that can support them and their child's healthy development.

New parents are also offered a new-born hearing test.

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Solihull Parenting Baby

The Solihull Approach offers an antenatal online course, that gives parents practical information about their pregnancy and birth whilst at the same time introducing them to their baby.

It explains how and why those around this baby are so important, whether they are the mother, father, partner, grandparent or birth partner. It integrates the traditional information given on an antenatal course with a new approach to starting their relationship with the baby before its born.

Free Password Darwin 18

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Sea Change Trust (term time only)

Talk and Play in the Bell Tent – drop-in therapeutic support for parents, babies and toddlers.

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Talking Early Years and Childcare

The Talking Early Years and Childcare team specialises in early years and childcare and is dedicated to supporting parent/carers, childcare settings of all types across Telford and Wrekin including private, voluntary and Council maintained provision.

The team's work includes:

• Support, advice and guidance to parents on finding childcare, access to entitlements, children development and additional needs
• Aiding the sustainability of childcare provision
• Offering advice on a variety of training programmes to support all business needs
• Looking after prospective and newly registered childminders
• Offering pre-OFSTED checks to established settings and childminders to support them through their inspections
• Ongoing support, advice and challenge to ensure quality childcare in Telford and Wrekin
• Assessing and monitoring the childminders on the Childminding Quality Assured Network
• Offering advice, practical guidance, support and signposting to breakfast clubs/afterschool clubs
• Ensuring the delivery of 2,3 and 4 year old funded places
• Monitoring the market and identifying sufficiency
• Deliver and co-ordinate targeted training packages to childcare providers enabling quality
• Work in partnership with commissioning to broker short breaks and respite care packages for families in need
• Supporting settings to access inclusion panel support
• Advise on SEND concerns.

For further information visit:-

https://www.telford.gov.uk/info/20392/Nurseries_and_childcare

https://www.telford.gov.uk/info/20391/working_in_childcare/5301/all_about_the_early_years_team

https://www.telford.gov.uk/info/20393/free_childcare_places_for_2_3_and_4_year_olds

Triple P for baby

Welcoming a baby into your life is incredibly exciting, but also has its fair share of challenging moments. Especially if you’re new to parenting. You might be feeling unsure about how to adjust to this new phase, or how to best support your baby’s wellbeing. With your own toolkit of tips and strategies, you can nurture their development, communication and learning from the very beginning. And you can learn to take good care of your own emotional wellbeing, which is good for your baby, too.

Triple P for Baby helps you and your baby get off to a positive start

This FREE programme is part of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program®, world-renowned 
and backed by research. It’ll help you:

• Promote your baby’s social, emotional, and cognitive development
• Be empowered and have confidence in your own choices- different options to cope with frequent crying, sleeping, partner conflict and more
• Read your baby’s cues and encourage their language learning
• Take better care of your own emotional and mental health
• Enjoy life as a new parent a lot more!

How can I do Triple P for Baby?

Right now, this world-class programme is available FREE in Telford. You can choose one or both options

• Group Triple P for Baby
  Join a series of 4 group and 4 individual sessions that 
  will help you navigate the joys and challenges of being 
  a new or expecting parent. Get support in a safe, nonjudgmental environment with flexible option
• Triple P Online for Baby
  Access a 7-module online course you can do at your 
  own pace, on any device. Videos, activities and 
  a handy workbook. Packed with tips you can use 
  straight away and benefit from for years to come

For further information visit:-

Maternity Services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Already pregnant? There’s no need to see a GP – you can come direct to us.

Self-refer through our BadgerNet Maternity Notes System or call 01743 261085 to book an appointment.

PODs

PODS is a grassroots parent carer peer led charity with staff and volunteers who have ‘real life’ experience to support families who have a child with a disability or additional needs (aged 0 – 25 years).

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