Infant feeding support

Dads, partners and breastfeeding

Do see our service leaflet on supporting breastfeeding

Dads, partners and breastfeeding

A-Z countywide support

A-Z countywide infant feeding support for both breast and formula fed babies:

Association of Breastfeeding Mothers
  • Phone: 0300 330 5453
Baby Bar (Wallingford)
  • Location: Wallingford
  • Day: Thursday morning
  • Time: 10.00am – 12.00pm
  • Venue: Ridgeway Church rooms, St Mary’s St, Wallingford OX10 0EW.
  • Website: wallingfordbabybar.co.uk
Baby Café (Abingdon)
  • Location: Abingdon.
  • Day: Thursday morning
  • Time: 10.00am – 12.00pm
  • Venue: Our Lady and St Edmund Parish Centre, Oxford Road, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 2EA.
  • Contact Sue Richards, 07598 315375, suerichards10@hotmail.com

Baby Lunchbox

Health Visitors’ drop-in infant feeding support:

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
North Oxfordshire Carterton

Banbury

 Bicester

Chipping Norton

 
Oxford City
South Oxfordshire Didcot

Thame

Wallingford

 Wantage
Banbury
  • Day: Tuesday
  • Time: 12.00pm – 1.30pm
  • Venue: East Street Centre, Calder Close, Banbury, OX16 3WR  Please Note this will move from Tuesday 7th January to The Sunshine Centre, Edmonds Rd, Banbury OX16 0PJ 12pm – 1.30pm
Bicester and Kidlington
  • Day: Wednesday (no appt needed)
  • Time: 12.30pm – 14.30pm
  • Venue: Emmanuel Church, Barberry Place, Bicester, OX26 3HA
Carterton
  • Day: Tuesday
  • Time: 11:30am – 12:00pm
  • Venue: Carterton Town Hall 19 Alvescot Road, Carterton OX18 3JL
  • Please note from 7th January 2025 Baby lunchbox will be 
  • Day: Tuesday
  • Time 1:00pm – 2:30pm
  • Venue: Carterton Family Centre, Burford Road, Carterton, OX18 3AA
Chipping Norton
  • Day: Wednesday
  • Time: 2:30pm-3:15pm
  • Venue: Chipping Norton Hospital, Russell Way, Chipping Norton OX7 5FA
Cowley
  • More details coming soon
Didcot
  • Day: Tuesday
  • Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
  • Venue: Northern Community Centre, Great Western Park, Dan Reade Parade, Didcot, OX11 6AS
Jericho
  • Day: Monday
  • Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
  • Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street, OX2 6BW
Thame
  • Day: 3rd Tuesday of every month
  • Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm
  • Venue: The Red Kite Family Centre, 99 Southern Road, Thame, OX9 2DY
Wallingford
  • Day: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month
  • Time: 10:30-12:00pm
  • Venue: Wallingford Child Health Clinic, Wallingford Community Hospital next door to Wallingford Medical Practice
Wantage & Faringdon
  • Day: Thursday
  • Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
  • Venue: Stanford village hall, 28 Hunters Field, Stanford in The Vale, SN7 8LX

 

Breastfeeding Network

Helpline: 0300 100 0212

Didcot Baby Monday
  • Location: Didcot
  • Day: Monday morning
  • Time: 10.00am – 12.00pm
  • Venue: Great Western Park Southern Community Centre, Sorrel Crescent, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 6HQ
  • Facebook: Didcot Baby Monday

Drop-in sessions and 1:1 appointments for lactation consultation. Runs all year and throughout school holidays. Didcot Baby Monday – Home | Facebook

La Leche League (Bicester)

Monthly meetings in Bicester, see website for details: La Leche League Bicester Meetings register at LLL Bicester Meeting Register or email leader@llloxford.org.uk

La Leche League (East Oxford)

Monthly meetings in East Oxford, see website for details: La Leche League Oxfordshire Meetings register at LLL Oxfordshire Meeting Register or email leader@llloxford.org.uk

Milk Bank

UK Association for Milk Banking has information about using donated breast milk if your baby is premature or ill, and how to donate breast milk

National Breastfeeding Helpline

National Breastfeeding Helpline – Helpline. Open everyday of the year from 9:30am – 9:30pm. Tel: 0300 100 0212.

NCT: National Childbirth Trust

Helpline 0300 330 0771

OBS (Oxford, Didcot, Kidlington)

Oxford, Didcot, Kidlington – Please check website for further details. Book appointment via the website https://www.oxbreastfeedingsupport.org/

OUH Infant feeding team

Specialist Infant Feeding Clinic open by appointment only on Mondays and Thursdays for outpatients with babies aged seven days to six weeks of age. Midwife, Health Visitor or GP can refer or self-referral. Tel: 01865 572950. Infant Feeding Clinic, Parent Education Room, Level 1 Outpatients, Women’s Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, OX3 9DU. Infant feeding – Maternity (ouh.nhs.uk)

The Breastfeeding Network

Website: The Breastfeeding Network

Provides support and information. They also have a support line in Bengali and Sylheti: 0300 456 2421

Tiddlypeeps
  • Location: Abingdon
  • Day: Tuesday mornings
  • Time: 10.00am – 11:30am.
  • Venue: All Saints Church, Church Street, Marcham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6NW

Run by Sophie – NCT lactation support worker from Breastfeeding café.

Twins Trust

Advice and support for families with twins or triplets

Non-urgent advice: Other support

Our health visitors also provide support which you can access via Chat Health 0-4 Parentline (text 07312263081).

We also provide an Enhanced HV Infant Feeding Service by referral via the HV team, please contact the HV team via Chat Health for more information.

Page last reviewed: 9 December, 2024