ABA meeting this Thurs 8/12 @ KIDZONE

Come and join us at KIDZONE from 10.30am this Thurs 8th Dec 2011 for a survival guide to the 'Silly Season'!
Everyone is welcome. Entry to kids under 12 months is free and other kids are just $5 with our group discount!
We will also be celebrating Steph qualifying as a breastfeeding counsellor xoxo See you there!

New Counsellor in Tamworth Group- Congrats Joanne!

Fresh from our 'Baby's Day Out success- it gives us great pleasure to congratulate Joanne on qualifying as a breastfeeding counsellor! Well done Jo!
If you're keen to check out a group meeting in action:

http://www.nbntv.com.au/index.php/2011/11/13/breastfeeding-support-in-big-numbers/

Thanks NBN for the support!

Baby's Day Out- the excitement is building!

BABY'S DAY OUT is on this Saturday, Oct 29th from 9am-2pm in Anzac Park! Join us for market stalls including jewellery, baby goods, delicious homemade treats, pampering for mum, designer baby clothes and soooo much more. We have a jumping castle and face painting + a coffee van, sausage sizzle and circus entertainment!
Tell your friends and see you there!

MEETING THIS THURS- Oct 13th

This week's meeting is on Thurs 13th October from 10.30 am at the Bluecross Church, Duri Rd (near the Lion's Park). We will be exploring 'Baby Massage'!
This is our last get-together before our big annual event- 'Baby's Day Out'!

*NEW* ABA Bulletin!

Our New Bulletin in bright pink! Oct 11- Mar 12

for more info please contact tamworthaba@gmail.com

This Week's Meeting- Thurs Sept 29th

Come and join us this Thurs 29th Sept from 10.30am at the Tamworth Sports Dome. Our topic is "Fitness after Baby". We have a physio and pilates instructor as guest speaker! For more info please contact tamworthaba@gmail.com

Baby's Day Out

Stalls are still available- $20 each byo tables, chairs etc. Please email tamworthaba@gmail.com for more information and to book xx

ABA meeting this Thurs- Sept 15th

Hi All!
We are meeting this week- Thurs Sept 15th from 10.30am at Cherie's place for outdoor play and a sausage sizzle. Everyone is welcome but can you please contact Cherie on 6762 6858 for further information xx

Meeting - 1st September

Come along to the Sports Dome this Thursday (1/9/11) at 10.30am for our next get together. The discussion topic this week is 'The role of the Child and Family Health Nurse for Mum and Baby'. Kylie, a Child and Family Health Nurse will be our guest speaker for the day. We hope to see you all there.

In Tamworth City News this week...

What a great meeting!

Hope you enjoy this shots from our meeting last Thursday- we had a great turn-out despite the chilly weather and as you can see, a great time was had by all xx

WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK 2011!

What a great success World Breastfeeding Week 2011 was for our ABA group! We did make it on Prime News on Thurs 4th Aug! And hopefully an article in the Leader is imminent. Here are some of the best shots from our celebrations!

ABA Chrissie in July 21/7

ABA is celebrating 'Christmas in July' this Thurs from 10.30am- 2.30pm at Sarah-Jane's place. Please email tamworthaba@gmail.com for address and directions xx

ABA Meeting this THURS 7/7

The next meeting for the Tamworth group of the Australian Breastfeeding Association will be held this THURS 7TH JULY at 10.30am at The Sports Dome (off Goonoo Goonoo Rd, West of AELEC)! Michelle will be leading this discussion meeting and the topic will be Breastfeeding Obstacles, although if you have any other breastfeeding questions or issues, there will be an opportunity for you to speak to a trained counsellor.  As always, please feel free to bring along a friend or two. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

ABA Meeting this THURS 23/6

Come and join us at the Tamworth Sports Dome, this THURSDAY 23rd JUNE from 10.30am! We will be discussing 'Myths and breastfeeding' and would love to see you there xx Everyone is welcome!

What a great meeting!!

Wow! What a fantastic meeting! Thank-you to Maria Ryan- our own 'sleep guru' and to the 29 mums who joined us xx hope to see you all again on the 23rd of this month

ABA meeting this Thurs 9/6 @ the Dome from 10.30am

We hope that you are able to join us this Thursday (9/6) from 10.30am @ the Dome (off Goonoo Goonoo Rd, West of AELEC)! We will be dicussing 'Sleep and Settle'- a really popular topic, with the help of local LC/RN/Midwife Maria Ryan. Everyone is welcome xx If you would like to bring along something to share for morning tea- that would be greatly appreciated!

ABA Meeting this THURS 26/5

Hi Everyone!
Hope to see you all at The Heights this Thurs 26/5 from 10.30am for one of our casual 'mum2mum' sessions on... SEX! looking forward to plenty of 'naughty anecdotes' xx It will be lovely to catch up with as many of you as possible xx

ABA meeting 12/5 from 10.30am @ the Dome

Looking forward to seeing many of you tomorrow at the Dome from 10.30am as we are joined by a guest speaker to discuss 'Understanding Emotional Challenges: coping with motherhood'!

International Midwives Day- A great success for all xx

A great day out! pictured left: Yvie + Felix, Jelka + Menno, Robyn Skewes, Cherie + Hunter. right: Yvie + Felix in front on the ABA window display.

International Midwives' Day 5/5/2011

Join Us ABA girls in the celebrations!!

And look out for our window display in Priceline Pharmacy in honour of the event!

ABA Meeting this Thursday 28/4 @ Anzac Park

Hope to see you all this Thursday 28/4 from 10.30am at the playground in Anzac Park (cnr of Napier and Fitzroy Sts). We will be discussing one of our casual mum2mum topics: Life after 1! We will talk about life with a baby who has turned 1 as well as what life is like deciding to have another child xx Please join us and tell your friends xx

Did you see our article in the Leader?

Thank you Nikki for posing with Brock for this shot! Congratulations to Maria on 2 years in private LC practice. Hope to see many of you at future meetings at the Dome xx

Welcome to Ellie Miranda

Congratulations to Joanne, Lad + Cooper on the arrival of Ellie Miranda- b. 19/4 9.03am, 7lb 7oz, 51.5cm.

Join us tomorrow at the Dome from 10.30am- we are going to have an awesome time- check out the morning tea: Boobie cupcakes!! 

ABA Meeting this THURS 14/4 @ the Dome

Hello Everyone!
Our next ABA meeting is this Thurs 14th April from 10.30am at the Tamworth Sports Dome. We will be discussing the topic 'At Home with Your New Baby'. We will also be celebrating our new semi-regular meeting venue of the Dome and helping local LC Maria to celebrate 2 years in private practice as an LC in Tamworth. Please join us for a great morning tea, frienship, support and information! We will also be visited by the Leader and possibly by Prime News also! So don't forget your lippy!!

We are now on Facebook!

Keep up with everything as it happens by following our ABA group on Facebook. We need 25 'likes' to get a personalised URL- so check us out today: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-Breastfeeding-Association-ABA-Tamworth-Group-Northern-NSW/153273558066820  

Our New Bulletin- April-Sept 2011

Hi All!

Here is our new bulletin for April-Sept 2011, look out for it around town, or contact us via email tamworthaba@gmail.com for a PDF version!

ABA Meeting this Thurs 24/3

Hi Girls!
We will be having a meeting this Thurs 24/3 at Cherie's place from 10am- please email us at tamworthaba@gmail.com for address and directions. The topic is 'What's this mushy stuff, mum?'- Different techniques for introducing solid food!
Thanks again to Cherie for hosting us xx

What's happening with Tamworth ABA this week?

Hi All!
This week we are busy finalising our booking with the Tamworth Sports Dome as a venue on our upcoming bulletin. Steph is working hard on the bulletin as we speak and will be able to sign off on another part of her training very soon! I hope raffle ticket sales are still going well for all our volunteers. As well as setting up this webpage/blog, we also have a facebook page on the go- thank you Jo for helping out with this... so watch this space for more news on that and to check out our new bulletin before it heads to print! Thanks to Laura for organising so many goodies from the group projects catalogue- they continue arriving in the mail like little bursts of Chrissie Cheer!!

Welcome to ABA in Tamworth!

Hello Everyone!
So great to be live on the www! Please join in and follow our blog! We will have reminders about meetings, tips, info and mum2mum support all online!