B.E.A.R.S Breastfeeding Support across Amber Valley

17/12/2025

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Always a good thing to cover especially this time of year! Information here about alcohol and breastfeeding

Beccy 🐻

16/12/2025

We’re sorry to say the Heanor group has to be cancelled this morning due to volunteer sickness.

We are still available via messenger and will be back face to face in Belper on Friday.

15/12/2025

Love this festive take on 12 days of Christmas!

We hope you are feeling festive ✨️ lets see where the bears are this week 😀

🐻 Tuesday 16th December 9.30-11 at Heanor infinite wellbeing centre
🐻 friday 19th December 1-2.30 at St Marks church belper

Have a festive week!

Beccy 🐻

14/12/2025

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Fantastic breastmilk! Especially this time of the year when illness is rife!

Beccy 🐻

When either mom or baby gets sick, breast milk literally levels up.

Here is what that really means in a simple but powerful way 🤱

When a baby nurses while sick their saliva sends signals to mom’s body through the ni**le. Mom’s immune system reads that information and starts producing specific antibodies for that exact illness. Those antibodies are then delivered straight back to the baby through milk. It is real time personalized medicine.

During illness breast milk increases
• white blood cells
• antibodies like IgA
• anti inflammatory components
• immune boosting proteins

The milk may even change color or thickness because it is more concentrated with protective factors.

If mom is the one who is sick her body is already producing antibodies and those are passed to the baby before baby even shows symptoms. Many breastfed babies either do not get sick or experience much milder symptoms because of this.

This is why nursing often increases during sickness. Babies instinctively nurse more because their body knows milk is helping them heal not just feeding them.

Breast milk does not just feed a baby.
It responds, adjusts, and protects.

It is not static.
It is living immune support.

11/12/2025

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Layering for easy breastfeeding is a great idea! Especially when its cold.. try it for Christmas jumper day 😀

Beccy 🐻

It's Christmas Jumper Day ☃

Have you heard of the one up, one down method? Why not try it, Christmas jumper style?

Layer a stretchy vest under your Christmas jumper, so you can lift your jumper up and pull the vest down to breastfeed. This only uncovers as much breast as is needed, keeping you cosy in the chilly weather while feeling festive!

Need support or information over the holidays?
We're here for you - 24/7 💜

📞 Call 0300 100 0212
💌 Send us a DM

Infant feeding support day and night, this Christmas! 🎄

Provided by The Breastfeeding Network (UK) with Association of Breastfeeding Mothers

✨Share your Christmas jumper pics - let’s spread some seasonal cheer together! ✨

[ID: Plate with Christmas biscuits in the shape of Christmas jumpers. National Breastfeeding Helpline 0300 100 0212. Here for you, 24/7, all through the holidays!]

10/12/2025

You can definitely feel this picture! I think mine are capable of this after 8 and a half years breastfeeding 🤣🤣

Beccy 🐻

08/12/2025

❤️Heanor Bears Tuesday 9th December, 9.30am-11am, Infinite Wellbeing❤️

Hello lovelies,
Hope you’re well. 🥰

Our Heanor group is on again tomorrow, Tuesday 9th of December. 🤩 The group meets at the Infinite Wellbeing Centre at 9.30-11am.

Hope to see you there! 🥰

Love from the Bears team ❤️ 🐻

08/12/2025

A lovely session in Alfreton today meeting some new families and creating some festive footprints 🦶🎄

05/12/2025

🥰 Belper group today from 1pm to 2:30pm🥰

Come along for feeding support or pop in for a hot drink and biscuit ☕️

Whether you’re exclusively breastfeeding, combi feeding, pumping, thinking about breastfeeding, or wanting to stop, everyone is welcome 🧸

We have some toys for the babies and toddlers and older children are very welcome too.

We would love to see you there 💖

The BEARS Team 🧸

04/12/2025

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Day 4 of advent is about oxytocin, that amazing love hormone 🥰

Beccy 🐻

✨ Day 4 of Advent ✨
Behind today’s door - Oxytocin 💖

Oxytocin is often called “the love hormone” — and for good reason. It helps you and your baby form a loving bond, feel calm, relaxed and happy. It also helps your baby’s brain to grow and develop, which happens at an incredible pace in the first months of life.

Christmas can mean breastfeeding in new places, in different routines, and around different people - including friends or family whose well-meaning comments can be unhelpful or discouraging.

Remember: breastfeeding is a two-way relationship that nurtures both you and your baby emotionally. Your feeding journey is your own, and you don't need to justify your choices 💜

But if you do want something to share, here’s evidence of the many benefits of breastfeeding:
www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/breastfeeding-information/thinking-of-breastfeeding/why-breastfeed/

[ID: Oxytocin. Candy cane 4. Breastfeeding releases the 'love hormone' oxytocin - helping you and your baby feel calm and relaxed... Image of chemical make-up of Oxytocin on pink background.]