Anna's Testimonial

We love to hear what some of 'our' mum's say about the Wallingford Baby Cafe.  It makes it all worth while if we hear good things and any negative comments (should we ever get any) will help us to refine our services to help women and their families even more.  We were sent the following testimonial recently and are very proud to share it on here.  We work hard to create a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, as well as providing accurate and up-to-date information and help and it's lovely to see that we've been successful.

"I first heard about the new Wallingford baby cafe from the midwives and looked forward to going along to it. The opening session was really busy but the people staffing it made time to come and talk to me and ask about my baby. I felt very welcome and included.

I had really wanted to breastfeed, but also had mixed feelings as I had previously had a baby girl, Philomena, who was stillborn at term.  I had produced milk for her, so lactating again now brought painful memories of not being able to feed her, as well as the delight of feeding my new baby boy.

The baby cafe volunteers were very accepting and understanding,
letting me talk when I needed to. I found the group excellent for
help with feeding questions and problems, but also a lovely
way to meet others and have a cup of tea and great homemade cake.

As time went on I found that quite a lot of my new mummy friends were giving up breastfeeding and I was in the minority at most baby groups. I found the baby cafe helped encourage me that it was worth doing all those night feeds!

I loved it that at baby cafe there would often be older babies and toddlers having a feed and there was no sense of breastfeeding being withdrawn until the baby wanted it to be.

When my baby grew teeth and began to bite, it was the advice of baby cafe which nipped the nipping in the bud! My gorgeous boy is nearly 10 months old now and still happily breastfeeding. I owe you all a big thank you, you made such a difference to us.

Anna and Orlando