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Mother-to-mother breastfeeding support. We support all breastfeeding mothers from pregnancy onwards. momab.org.uk/donate/

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jun 2

MoMa Breastfeeding is a new mother-to-mother breastfeeding support organisation. We are volunteer run and rely on donations to offer local support and meetings around the country. Please help us by donating and spreading the word.
momab.org.uk/donate/

Donations – MoMa Breastfeeding

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · 2d

All ready for #FiLiA25!

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · 7d

We feel honoured to have the support of the inspirational Marian Tompson and were delighted that she was more than happy to give us a quote for our website. Thank you, Marian, for all that you have done for breastfeeding mothers and babies everywhere.

Photo of Marian Tompson with the quote: "Thank you, MoMa Breastfeeding, for standing up for the importance and unique advantages of mother-to-mother help for breastfeeding. As the founder of La Leche League, I joyfully and gratefully send you my good wishes and thanks for taking on a commitment that has such vitally important consequences."

MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · 11d

One of our MoMa Breastfeeding Counsellors spotted this bronze ‒ Charity by Paul Dubois from around 1870 ‒ at Harris library in Preston. Beautiful!
#breastfeedingart

Bronze statue of a mother holding two young children and breastfeeding one of them.

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · 15d

MoMa Breastfeeding is delighted to have a stall at #FiLiA2025 in Brighton next month. Please do come and say hello!
We are also honoured that three of our directors are taking part in this panel session on Maternity and Breastfeeding.

FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 15d

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥

MATERNITY AND BREASTFEEDING: Advocating together for Women’s #maternity and #breastfeeding needs, grounded in physiology, language, culture and sex-based rights @momabfing.bsky.social @annamelamed.bsky.social

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.easyfundraising.org.uk/support-a-go...

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Aug 24

He was an inspiration to the founders of MoMa Breastfeeding and we acknowledge his legacy in our work. A life well lived, by a remarkable man who will be greatly missed.

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Aug 24

He drew an unbroken line from birth to breastfeeding, naming what mothers and babies truly need. He had a deep understanding of the mother-baby dyad and wrote on many related topics, empowering women to make their own choices.

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Aug 24

This week MoMa mourns the death of Dr Michel Odent. He was a champion for mothers & giving birth “back to women”. His advocacy reminded us that birth is a physiological, deeply instinctive process, with a natural integrity which should be protected from unnecessary intervention.

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Aug 10

momab.org.uk/moma-videos/

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Aug 10

We're adding content to our website ‒ including videos. Here's our first one and you can find more breastfeeding tips on our website. 👇

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Aug 4

It's World Breastfeeding Week. www.who.int/campaigns/wo...

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Experimenting on newborns, just to affirm adult identities, is egregious. Such experiments are possible only because medicine, in the push towards inclusivity, is forgetting our own core value: first, do no harm."

Thank you, Janhavi Nilekani, for your brilliant article.

MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jul 24

We founded MoMa Breastfeeding on our core values that have also been forgotten elsewhere, including centring the mother-baby dyad. Mother-to-mother support in a welcoming single-sex space is vital for many mothers when accessing breastfeeding support.
open.substack.com/pub/janhavin...

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jul 16

🤦‍♀️Of course that should say 'and the north EAST, in various places in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland'!

MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jul 16

We now have MoMa groups in the north west of England on the Fylde Coast, and the north west, in various places in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland. We are not in Scotland yet, but we are planning to be, although it will take a while.
momab.org.uk/meetings/

Meetings – MoMa Breastfeeding

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jul 16

From this excellent piece by Elaine Miller
venusenvyxx.substack.com/p/why-are-we...

"Why are we funding "Breastfeeding Men"?"

Blunt headlines force truths.

venusenvyxx.substack.com

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jul 16

“Breastfeeding women really benefit from peer support, and I was delighted to see the new women-only, mother-led service [...] MoMa Breastfeeding, which offers volunteer-led, free breastfeeding support exclusively to women, after existing groups denied women single-sex support.”

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jul 14

It's a couple of weeks ago that one of MoMa's co-founders and directors, @ruthlewis.bsky.social, talked to Kelly Oliver Dougal about breastfeeding, setting up MoMa and what led up to doing that. Do go and have a listen to their conversation!
youtu.be/sADECWeoJWA?...

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jul 2

Tune in at 8 o'clock BST this evening to hear @ruthlewis.bsky.social, one of the MoMa Breastfeeding co-founders, talking to Kelly Oliver Dougal @KODPOW. youtu.be/sADECWeoJWA?...

MoMa - no men allowed into new breastfeeding support organisation for mothers and babies.

YouTube video by Kelly Oliver Dougall

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jun 23

We love this breastfeeding street art in Palermo, Sicily. 🤱

Street art of a family with a picnic in an agricultural setting. The mother is breastfeeding her baby, while the father looks on playing a mandolin.

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jun 19

We're in for a hot spell! For exclusively breastfeeding babies, their mummy's milk is all they need.

Photo of an older baby sucking on a frozen breastmilk lolly. The text says: Exclusively breastfed babies do not need water or anything other than breastmilk. In hot weather, many mothers find that their baby might want to breastfeed or swap sides more often.
Older babies and toddlers might like to slurp on or play with a frozen breastmilk lolly or cubes!

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jun 17

We named the mother in our beautiful logo Marian, after a woman ‒ and mother, grandmother and great grandmother – with integrity and clarity of purpose who has had a huge influence on us, Marian Tompson. We’re delighted that she was very touched when we told her about it.

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jun 17

We thought we’d share a little bit about MoMa Breastfeeding. The MoMa part of our name comes from Mothers Make, because it is the fundamental truth of our organisation. Mothers make everything ‒ our support, our meetings and of course the babies & the breastmilk!

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MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jun 14

We love spotting breastfeeding art and this beautiful painting by Nathanaëlle Herbelin in the Musée d'Orsay was sent by a loved one to one of our directors.

MoMaBreastfeeding @momabfing.bsky.social · Jun 9

We were saddened to hear of the recent death of Naomi Stadlen. Naomi's book 'What Mothers Do: especially when it looks like nothing' is one that means a huge amount to many of us who found it enormously helpful when adjusting to motherhood.