Non-Trinity Support Organisations
Everyone tells you breast is best but where do you go to get the support you will need to establish and continue feeding? The list below may help or you can email us here in College Health on health.promotion@tcd.ie.
Trinity Based Lactation Consultation
Elizabeth Quinn is a PhD student in Trinity who offers lactation consultations. More information is available on her website. http://breastfeedingmothers.org/about/
La Leche League
A voluntary organisation that provides information and support to women who want to breastfeed their babies. They hold regular support groups. A list of the groups is available here: https://www.lalecheleagueireland.com/groups/. La Leche League also provide telephone support. If you're having difficulty or are feeling like you need support, we strong recommend you call them.
Cuidiu, the Irish Childbirth Trust
See the list of local branches for parenting and breastfeeding support in at www.cuidiu.ie. They run general parenting support groups as well as having breastfeeding support volunteers.
Public Health Nurses
Your local Public Health Nurse may run a breastfeeding group in your area. Ask in the hospital or when your public health nurse visits you after your baby is born.
Useful Websites
www.breastfeeding.ie – HSE website on breastfeeding
www.rollercoaster.ie – Forum for new parents
www.askdrsears.com/topics/breastfeeding - Parenting website from America
Song for a Fifth Child
by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing and butter the bread,
Sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren’t her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
For children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.
Parenthood Support
List of Cuidiú branches - Please note contact details change regularly due to the voluntary nature of Cuidiu. Use the details below but they may need to redirect you.
Athlone branch
Covers Athlone and all surrounding towns and villages
Co-ordinator Caitriona Manser 087 6960853
Carlow Group
Covers Carlow and surrounding areas
Contact Sinead Mead 085 7071359
Cork branch
Covers Cork, Carrigaline and Midleton
Co-ordinator Aoife Bhreatnach 087 1355649 or 021 4295904 http://www.cuidiucork.net/
Drogheda group
Covers Louth, Meath area - Drogheda, Slane, Garristown, Dundalk, Navan and surrounding areas.
Co-ordinator Sofia Khokhar 087 7903033
Dublin North County Branch
Covers Dublin North County, including Howth, Portmarnock, Malahide, Swords, Donabate, Lusk, Rush, Skerries and west to Ashbourne
Co-ordinator Eleanor McQuinn 086 3285780
Dublin North East Branch
Covers East Wall, Fairview, Marino, Donnycarney, Clontarf, Raheny, Bayside, Sutton, Howth, Portmarnock, Santry, Killester, Baldoyle, Artane, Beaumont, North Strand, Whitehall, Griffith Avenue.
Co-ordinator Fiona Peacham 086 862 8896 cuidiu.dne@gmail.com
Dublin North West branch
Covers Cabra, Stoneybatter, NCR (D7), Navan Road, Blanchardstown, Castleknock, Clonsilla, Drumcondra, Glasnevin, Phibsborough, Broadstone & parts of Finglas, Whitehall, Beaumont & Clonee Co.Meath.
Co-ordinator Georgie Kavanagh Hoff 087 237 8984
Dublin South East branch
Covers areas south of the city e.g. Sandymount, Donnybrook - along the coast as far as Loughlinstown/Shankill and inland as far as Sandyford, Leopardstown, Stillorgan.
For all Branch contacts and events go to http://www.cuidiudse.ie/
Dublin South West branch
Covers Dundrum, Lucan, Leixlip, Rathfarnham, Knocklyn, Terenure, Firhouse, Lucan, Tallaght, Templeogue, Maynooth, Mountmellick and all surrounding areas
Co-Ordinator AnnMaire O'Keefe 085 2773191
Enniscorthy branch
Covers the area of Enniscorthy town and surrounding areas
Co-ordinator Anne Marie Roche 086 8180699 or 053 9239828
Kilkenny branch
Covers the area of Kilkenny town and surrounding areas
Co-ordinator Lucy Glendenning 056 771 2878
Mullingar branch
Covers Mullingar, Delvin, Castlepollard, Kells, Tyrrellspass, Multyfarnham, Streamstown, Longford and surrounding areas
Co-ordinator Ruth Rooke 087 1210247
North Wicklow branch
Covers Bray, Shankhill, Greystones, Delgany, Ashford, Glenealy, Kilcoole, Kilbride, Kilquade, Rathdrum, Inch, Gorey, Arklow, Aughrim and surrounding areas
Co-ordinator Paula Ryan 086 0238335
Waterford branch
Covers Waterford city and surrounding areas
Co-ordinator Marie Keating 051 380669
Contact for South Tipperary and South Kilkenny Wendy Micklis 087 6125918
Wexford Branch
Covers Wexford town, Castlebridge and surrounding areas
Co-ordinator Mathew Brophy 087 1501895