Our FREE local service is run by NCT Breastfeeding Counsellors.

We need your help as we rely on grants and generous donations to fund it - £25 pays for one appointment for future parents - can you pay it forward and enable us to continue to deliver this critical service?

Our service is available to all parents and offers support, encouragement and reliable information - whether getting ready to breastfeed, establishing breastfeeding, continuing breastfeeding, expressing, mixed feeding, formula feeding, introducing solids or stopping breastfeeding.

We offer appointments every Friday morning (except Good Friday and Christmas week) between 10 and 11:30am at Brookvale Village Hall, RG21 7RU. There is ample free parking available. For an appointment, please email us at hantsbf@gmail.com. The service runs alongside Basingstoke NCT's friendly and popular Bumps and Babies group.

Any donation amount is truly appreciated and will go towards helping more parents.

NCT Basingstoke has offered infant feeding support at Brookvale since May 2011 supporting hundreds of families every year. Many of these families are feeling physically and emotionally vulnerable and are in the very early days of parenthood, often visiting us when their babies are just a few days old.

"I'm very grateful for the support I received. I don't believe we would have gotten through exclusively breastfeeding if I hadn't had it, and it has made a huge difference for myself and my little one. No amount of googling things could replace the value of talking to a caring and knowledgeable counsellor directly!"

"the service provided invaluable support and advice at a hugely stressful and emotional time… All mums should be able to access this amazing service"

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