Maternity
Suffolk Babies
Suffolk Babies is a not-for-profit community interest company, providing high quality, affordable education, continuity and support from pregnancy to preschool. Classes include preparation for birth, baby massage, baby yoga, fitmumas, understanding your toddler and sling library.
Facebook: @SuffolkBabiesCentre
Telephone: 07944 070 362
Website: www.suffolkbabies.co.uk
Email: info@suffolkbabies.co.uk
Ipswich Hospital Pregnancy and Birth Services
Their aim is to provide high-quality, safe care that meets your needs and those of your baby and family by helping you to make informed decisions about your care so that you and your family feel confident about your pregnancy, birth and parenting your new baby.
Telephone: 01473 703102 or 01473 703104
Website: www.esneft.nhs.uk/pregnancy-and-birth-services
You can now self-refer to the maternity team to make your first booking. Please use Self-referral to Ipswich maternity services.
EPIC Dad
They are a community interest company with a focus on supporting fathers, father figures, and families in Suffolk.
Facebook: @EPIC-Dad
Telephone: 07717 744 608
Website: www.epicdad.co.uk
Email: info@epicdad.co.uk
Bumps
Their website is dedicated to providing reliable, evidence based, and accurate information about the use of medicines in pregnancy, in the form of freely available patient information leaflets called Bumps (Best Use of Medicines in Pregnancy).
Website: www.medicinesinpregnancy.org
NCT
NCT are here to make sure parents-to-be and new parents feel connected and supported.
Facebook: @nationalchildbirthtrust
Twitter: @NCTcharity
Telephone: 0300 330 0700
Website: www.nct.org.uk
Email: enquiries@nct.org.uk
Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes UK is a charity that has been helping women and men across the UK to choose if and when they have children. They provide abortion and contraception support and advice.
Facebook: @MarieStopesUK
Twitter: @MarieStopes
Telephone: 0345 300 8090
Website: www.mariestopes.org.uk
Email: services@mariestopes.org.uk
Breastfeeding Suffolk App
The Breastfeeding Suffolk app is built for new mothers who are breastfeeding their newborn. The app features helpful tools that allow mothers to track feed times, record child development milestones and read daily information cards related to their breastfeeding cycle.
Website: breastfeedingsuffolk.co.uk
Download app from: iTunes
Download app from: Google Play
Perspectives Ipswich
They provide a free and confidential counselling support for those experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, pregnancy loss and post abortion loss.
Telephone: 07540 635 236
Website: www.perspectivesipswich.co.uk
Best Beginnings
They work to help parents build knowledge and confidence to support their own well-being and their children’s long-term physical, mental and emotional development and they are the creator of Baby Buddy which is an award winning mobile phone app for new parents and parents-to-be, created by mums, doctors and midwives.
Facebook: @bestbeginningscharity
Twitter: @bestbeginnings
Telephone: 020 7443 7895
Website: www.bestbeginnings.org.uk
Email: info@bestbeginnings.org.uk
Download Baby Buddy app from: Google Play: Baby Buddy
Download Baby Buddy app from: iTunes: Baby Buddy
Home Start
Home-Start works with families in communities right across the UK. Starting in the home, their approach is as individual as the people they help. No judgement, it is just compassionate, confidential help and expert support.
Facebook: @homestartuk
Twitter: @homestartuk
Telephone: 01164 645490
Website: www.home-start.org.uk
Email: info@home-start.org.uk
Maternity Action
Maternity Action is the UK’s leading charity committed to ending inequality and improving the health and well-being of pregnant women, partners and young children.
Facebook: @MaternityAction
Twitter: @MaternityAction
Telephone: 0808 800 0041
Website: www.maternityaction.org.uk
Email: info@maternityaction.org.uk
Association for Post-Natal Illness
A registered charity that was established in 1979 to provide support to mothers suffering from post-natal illness, increase public awareness of the illness and encourage research into its cause/nature.
Facebook: @associationforpostnatalillness
Twitter: @APNI_PND
Telephone: 020 7386 0868
Website: www.apni.org
Email: info@apni.org