The Breastfeeding Festival is about celebrating and promoting breastfeeding, aiming to increase breastfeeding rates and duration.

This year the Breastfeeding Festival will be held in the Mayo Building at Salford Royal Hospital on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June.

The festival has been almost entirely funded in previous by the Bumps and Babies Sales held in Ulverston, the original home of the Breastfeeding Festival – more information here.

SALES ONLINE HAVE NOW ENDED, BUT YOU CAN STILL PURCHASE A TICKET ON THE DOOR, ON THE DAY, AT £15

Speakers include Maureen Minchin, author of the celebrated book Milk Matters, Dr Wendy Jones from the Drugs in Breastmilk Helpline on Breastfeeding and Medications; Professor Helen Ball From the Durham Sleep Institute on Safer Infant Sleep & Sleep Development, Pamela Morrison IBCLC on Faltering Growth and on Breastfeeding and HIV; Dr Felicity Savage from WABA on World View of Breastfeeding; Mark Harris RM (author of Birthing for Blokes) on Breastfeeding and Dads; Dr Amy Brown of Swansea University on Who Really Decides How We Feed Our Babies; and Sarah Atkinson (medical herbalist) on Herbal Medicine and Breastfeeding.

The main room accommodates 150 people and tickets are sold PER HOUSEHOLD so it is possible that not all attendees will be able to be accommodated in the main room for the talks. There are plenty of other things to see and do at the festival, with children's activities and stalls and so on around the venue.

Some of the stalls will have things for sale, some with special discounts for the event, so if you’d like to buy on the day, do remember to bring cash as many of the stallholders will not be able to take cards. Our stallholders have their own page on our website, here.

This is an all-day event but there is plenty of catering on site and we have scheduled plenty of breaks in which to eat food you have bought on site or brought with you - there are plenty of seating areas and there are lots of things to see.