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

31/10/2025

8 years and counting 🤪

We hope youve had a great Halloween!

What's yours?!

Beccy 🎃

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃🐻🎃🐻🎃

We are back at St Marks church today for our weekly belper group! You'll find us there 1-2.30 with the kettle on ready

So if you have a ghoulish breastfeeding query thats spooking you. Or your little milk monster has kept you up all night and you need to vent!
Older siblings welcome as we know those half terms can be a trick! But we have biscuits and Halloween colouring as a treat!

See you there!

The bears team 🐻

30/10/2025

Our Belper group is on tomorrow from 1pm until 2:30pm at St Marks Church.

If you have older siblings with you this week they are very welcome to come along too. We will have some Halloween colouring and crafts out to help keep them entertained 🎃

Come along for breastfeeding support or just pop in for a cuppa and a chat. Everyone is welcome whether you’re exclusively breastfeeding, combi feeding, pumping, just starting your feeding your journey or navigating bringing it to an end. We are here to offer non judgmental support and a supportive listening ear. 🩷🧸

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

29/10/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/16PJFZzjUG/

We are always after new volunteers. So here are the details for the next supporter course if you want to join the Bears 🐻 💖🐻💖

Beccy 🎃

Did you see that we are now accepting applications for our next Breastfeeding Peer Supporter course?

Our next 11-week OCN-accredited course will run on Tuesday afternoons, starting in February. Eight sessions will be held online and three will be in-person at a lovely venue in Matlock. No taught sessions will run during the Derbyshire school holidays.

Worried who will care for your baby or child while you complete your training? You're very welcome to bring your kids to our training sessions, and when you volunteer, if you would like to!

Here's the info you need 👇
❤ Application deadline: Tuesday, 9th December
🧡 Informal interview: Tuesday, 6th January at 12.30pm
💛 Course start date: Tuesday, 3rd February
💚 For more information, send us a DM or contact derbyshire@breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk
💙 Link to apply: https://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/.../helper2026.../

⭐ Top tips: our courses are usually over-subscribed so the team shortlisting candidates are particularly looking for mums who have some breastfeeding experience and explain (in their applications) why they are passionate about supporting other families to breastfeed. They would also be keen to put forward candidates who attend our drop-in support sessions. Please note, the Group Host course (which takes around 2 hours to complete) is a prerequisite for this course. To sign up for the Group Host course, please email derbyshire@breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk. See less

29/10/2025

Love this from Breastfeeding Mama Talk !

Anyone here feeding a little milk monster at the moment? Are they keeping you up?!

Beccy 🎃

28/10/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EcwUDhcBF/

Unfortunately so many mums have been told things such as these! Have you ever had experience of it?

Beccy 🎃

27/10/2025

Emma & Louise will be on hand at Infinite Wellbeing tomorrow for all of your infant feeding questions. Come join us for a cuppa & a chat ☕️

*Please note that the venue is likely to be busier than normal tomorrow with lots of families enjoying half term fun in the role play area*

27/10/2025

Always love this one! So lets see what comes up this year for me!

I am Beccy
Witch of course
I ride a great blog as my broom. Hmm doesn't quite make sense that one 😂

Let's hear yours! (Hope they're better than mine! )
Beccy 🐻

26/10/2025

So the clocks went back early hours of this morning! A collective grown from every parent
If you're feeling tired and out of sorts why not pop along to one of our groups this week. We are here with a brew and support 😘

So let's see where the bears are this week +
🎃 Tuesday 28th October at Heanor infinite wellbeing centre 9.30-11
🎃 friday 31st October at St Marks church belper 1-2.30
Siblings welcome to groups with it being half term. Hope to see you there!

Have a spooky week! 🎃🐻🎃🐻

Beccy 🐻

25/10/2025

Remember!

⏰ The clocks go back an hour tonight

How do you get through the change with little ones? Share your successful tips with us, the community would love to know.

Helen, Belper BEAR 🧸

24/10/2025

Join us for our Belper group this afternoon at St Mark’s Church from 1pm until 2:30pm.

Pop in for a cuppa or drop in for support or advice. Everyone is welcome.

Kath will also have her Halloween backdrop up so if you’d like a cute photo do pop in. We’d love to see you there. 🎃🧸

22/10/2025

Woo hoo! Applications are open!

Have you been thinking what it might be like to volunteer with us? Drop us a message or comment below and we’ll help you with any questions you have.

We LOVE LOVE LOVE welcoming new volunteers to the team. We always need mums to help at all of groups - Alfreton, Belper, Heanor and one of the things we’re determined to achieve this coming year is to get our Ripley group back up and running too.

Volunteer with BEARS - we have so many opportunities for you, whether it’s running a session, helping on our social media, answering messages over Facebook and Instagram, attending local events with our fabulous pink gazebo, and being involved with our committee - directly influencing how we spend our funds, making decisions on how best to run our groups and improving the services we offer to local families. Not to mention the wider Breastfeeding Network Derbyshire opportunities - national study days, ongoing training and supervision, belonging to a fabulous team of likeminded people.

There’s nothing more satisfying than finding your tribe. And here at BEARS we can offer that!

We can’t wait to welcome you into our team 🥰

Helen, Chair.

📣📣 Are you passionate about breastfeeding? Would you like to support local families to meet their breastfeeding goals? Why not apply for our accredited peer supporter course and join our amazing team as a Breastfeeding Network Volunteer in Derbyshire?

Our next 11-week OCN-accredited course will run on Tuesday afternoons, starting in February. Eight sessions will be held online and three will be in-person at a lovely venue in Matlock. No taught sessions will run during the Derbyshire school holidays.

Worried who will care for your baby or child while you complete your training? You're very welcome to bring your kids to our training sessions, and when you volunteer, if you would like to!

Here's the info you need 👇
❤ Application deadline: Tuesday, 9th December
🧡 Informal interview: Tuesday, 6th January at 12.30pm
💛 Course start date: Tuesday, 3rd February
💚 For more information, send us a DM or contact derbyshire@breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk
💙 Link to apply: https://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/training/helper2026-23-derbyshire/

⭐ Top tips: our courses are usually over-subscribed so the team shortlisting candidates are particularly looking for mums who have some breastfeeding experience and explain (in their applications) why they are passionate about supporting other families to breastfeed. They would also be keen to put forward candidates who attend our drop-in support sessions. Please note, the Group Host course (which takes around 2 hours to complete) is a prerequisite for this course. To sign up for the Group Host course, please email derbyshire@breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk.