Join the Hull & East Yorkshire Big Breastfeed to learn from local experts and meet families in your community
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’s Infant Feeding teams are sharing details of the Hull & East Yorkshire Big Breastfeed events which take place at two locations across Hull and the East Riding this August.
World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 – 7 August and aims to raise awareness of the health and wellbeing outcomes of breastfeeding. It also outlines the importance of supporting mothers to breastfeed for as long as they wish. This year’s theme is “Prioritise Breastfeeding: Create sustainable support systems”.
The key objectives of #WBW2025 are to emphasise the importance of building robust and sustainable support systems for breastfeeding mothers, recognising breastfeeding as a powerful tool for environmental sustainability.
The Big Breastfeed events are taking place on:
Friday 1st August 2025 – 10am to 12pm at Bridlington SPA, South Marine Drive YO15 3JH
Friday 8th August 2025 – 12pm to 2pm at StreetlifeMuseum, High Street, Hull, HU1 1PS
Mums, babies, families and friends from across Hull and the East Riding are invited to attend to support, protect and promote breastfeeding whilst enjoying a picnic and having some fun!
The teams organising the events will use these as an opportunity to highlight the local support available for families in the area, to encourage families who are breastfeeding, expressing breast milk and feeding this to their baby, are pregnant and are thinking of breastfeeding, or have breastfed in the past.
The events are a great opportunity to chat, to ask each other questions, to support one another and can be a great place to make new friends. Most importantly, it’s a chance to come together in your local area, to celebrate everything that is great about breastfeeding as a community.
For more information on support with Infant Feeding visit the team here – https://connect.humber.nhs.uk/service/infant-feeding/introduction-infant-feeding
