Karleen asked:
"Who is manning the helpline?? I haven't been able to find that out in the
articles." 

Karleen, volunteers from the Breastfeeding Network, and volunteers from the 
Association of Breastfeeding Mothers -- two of the four mother support 
organisations here in the UK (the others are La Leche League GB and The 
National Childbirth Trust) are answering the calls. 

So, for example, I am on rota tomorrow morning. 

Here is the information on the BfN website:
http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/national-breastfeeding-helpline 

I can't see anything on the ABM website yet, here is their web address:
http://abm.me.uk/website/index.htm 

the Department of Health info explains it:
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=352806&NewsAreaID 
=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False
see point 4 at the bottom of the page. 

I also thought this was interesting:
"The Breastfeeding Network, one of the two organisations who will make up 
the helpline, received around 20,000 calls last year the other organisation 
the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers received around more than 8,000 
calls. The National Breastfeeding Helpline will be able to receive call 
volumes of several times that number. It is estimated that almost 10 per 
cent of the mothers giving birth in England call, showing not only the need 
but that women are motivated to seek assistance." 

Both BfN and ABM also have their own organisation helplines, too.  (As do 
the other two vol orgs) 

Apparantly today most of the calls were from journalists and others just 
checking that it really is up and live (and it is!!).  Its going to be 
interesting to see how it develops. 

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, The Breastfeeding Network, UK 

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